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The people Crossan described as the expendables, those at the bottom of the bottom of the world’s pyramids of power.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Mr. Rey Diaz, you are a Wallfacer with the makings of a god. It is my honor to become your Wallbreaker.” The Wallbreaker stood up and offered Rey Diaz a genial bow. Rey Diaz did not look at him. He took a puff of his cigar and blew out the smoke as he continued to examine it. “Fine. Then I’ll ask the question that Tyler asked.” The Wallbreaker aske
... See moreCixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
environment, if we have eyes to
see it. “Egypt”—a symbol of the
spiritual, political, theological, and
economic forces of deadly evil—is
not somewhere far off; it lies close
at hand (see Rev. 18). In Egypt, God
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is what you want. In Egypt, luxury
is a right, at least f... See more
to reclaiming the prophetic tradition and working with multi-faith partners to build a society of equity and equality, compassion and justice.
Sharon Brous • The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
God is continually looking for ordinary people such as John who are willing to let him use them to make a difference
Erik Rees • S.H.A.P.E.: Finding and Fulfilling Your Unique Purpose for Life
The Christian gospel, it is often said, is designed to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
N. T. Wright • Acts for Everyone, Part Two: Chapters 13-28 (The New Testament for Everyone)
If we understand Jesus’ action in the Temple in the way I have suggested, we achieve the very great historical benefit of coherence, at this point, between a good many words and deeds which were most characteristic of Jesus during his itinerant ministry, and the deeds and words which, in Jerusalem, brought that whole prophetic career to its climax.
N. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
Jesus’ language as referring to the end of the world per se,152 we may regard these warnings as threatening the end of the present nation of Israel, if they do not repent. In the sad, noble, and utterly Jewish tradition of Elijah, Jeremiah and John the Baptist, Jesus announced the coming judgment of Israel’s covenant god on his people, a judgment c
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