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“Why are you Here?”
“Today in the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement, which is galvanizing change far beyond the United States, the most recent Public Religious Institute data show that white evangelical Protestants are the only major religious groups in which a … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Lives Matter, Christena Cleveland, reconciliation, Thabiti Anyabwile
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Preoccupation with Perfection
“All this preoccupation with your own imperfection is not humility, but an insidious form of spiritual pride. What do you expect to be? A saint? There are desperately few of them. And even they found that faults, which are the … Continue reading
The Power of Crumbs
“We can devote ourselves to striving after success and popularity, or we can notice the least likely to succeed parts of ourselves—What? All you have is one little boy with a few loaves and fish?—and imagine them new. Our child heart is open; it offers … Continue reading
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Tagged apprentices of Jesus, Jesus, Kayla McClurg, loaves and fishes
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“The Family of the Lovers of God”
“The family that Jesus knows he belongs to and belongs to forever—and the family he wants everyone else to belong to—is the family of the lovers of God; it is this family that must spread all over the earth, and … Continue reading
Watch what Jesus Does
“God isn’t looking for servants. God isn’t looking for slaves, workers, contestants to play the game or jump the hoops correctly. God is simply looking for images! God wants images of God to walk around the earth…. God wants usable … Continue reading
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Surprise!
“Fortunately, God is not what we think God is—not in any small way what I might think, nor in any big way the sum total of what a whole bunch of thinkers, great thinkers through the centuries, might think. And … Continue reading
Failure as a Catalyst
“Most life-strategy courses focus on how to avoid failure, or at least how to recast it so it can be called success. That makes sense—who among us doesn’t prefer to move only from success to more success? But Jesus seems to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloomberg Businessweek, David McCullough, Elon Musk, failure, Falcon 9, Kayla McClurg, Kitty Hawk, NC, Space X, Wright Brothers
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Seeking a Soft Heart
OMID SAFI is a columnist for On Being. He also is Director of Duke University’s Islamic Studies Center and the current Chair for Islamic Mysticism Group at the American Academy of Religion. He writes . . . “Every heart has … Continue reading
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