Tabitha
@tabithamcduffee
Writer. Learner. Beauty chaser.
Tabitha
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Write about the focus on uncertainty as the opposite of certitude in evangelicalism, and yet Progressive Christians are just as incapable as Conservative ones of continuing a journey with an unpredictable God.
3 Waves That Have Shaped Evangelical Churches (and a 4th on the Way)
Trevin Waxthegospelcoalition.org
Ideas I want to write about and the digital age
So heartbreaking. This needs to change for the health of the church.
“Cain does not believe that God is just. He responds in a fury by murdering his brother. It is as if he is shouting at heaven, ‘Oh, so my offering is not good enough for you? Try this one on for size!’
Abel is an offering of infinite value. Cain is sacrificing the image of God to God.
That is what murder is. It is the killing of the imago Dei. It is
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“To make things that don’t exist yet—and don’t need to exist, because that is the very definition of art—and to send them out into the world is wildly, impractically, gorgeously hopeful.
“This is my way of saying there is no creativity without hope. Creativity is inherently hopeful, and the reverse is also true: Hope is inherently creative. Hope is
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I reminded him of a story from an ancient Chinese Zen master, of the Buddha coming upon some people who had just been robbed while picnicking. They were racing around, enraged, asking him to help them. But Buddha asks, “Who would you rather find, the burglars or yourself?”
Tim nodded, and then said, “The burglars.”
“Same.”
— Anne Lamott, Somehow
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