Catholic Baptist

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“[T]o recognize human dignity in one another is indeed to share the truth of what humanity is in the eyes of God, the nourishment that truth gives. We feed each other by honouring the truth of the divine image in each other.” ~Rowan Williams, Being Disciples

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“The church needs the Carpenter from Nazareth to deconstruct the house that racism built and remake it into a house for all nations.” ~ Jemar Tisby

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“There are both novelty and continuity, confirmation and surprise in every encounter between God and humanity.” ~James Evans

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“While love is the bond of human community and hope fuels its engines, faith charts its direction.” ~James Evans

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Instead, it is the victory of love over the root of evil, a victory that does not ‘by-pass’ suffering and death, but passes through them, opening a path in the abyss, transforming evil into good: this is the unique hallmark of the power of God.” ~Pope Francis

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“This is a different ‘contagion,’ a message transmitted from heart to heart – for every human heart awaits this Good News. It is the contagion of hope: ‘Christ, my hope, is risen!’ This is no magic formula that makes problems vanish. No, the resurrection of Christ is not that...

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Great homily this morning by @BauerschmidtC. Check it out: https://t.co/dn0iJYG6mt

[Duke Chapel @DukeChapel]

The Chapel hosts the labyrinth next Monday and Tuesday.

The labyrinth, a forty-foot circle containing a winding path, is an ancient spiritual tradition in many faiths. Visitors are invited to walk it on March 2 from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. and on March 3 from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

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Who is an evangelical? An interview with historian Thomas Kidd https://t.co/VpMP73J01L

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“I sometimes think that Christianity is not so much a propositional religion as a prepositional religion: everything turns on the prepositions, the tiny little words that define and change relationships.” ~Malcolm Guite

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“The whole purpose of Advent is to be for a moment fully and consciously Before Christ.”
~Malcolm Guite

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@myleswerntz Maybe they are always ready for a fight. The Rebels just gave them a solid option.

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Needless to say, no “O Come O Come Emmanuel” this morning.

[Catholic Baptist @CatholicBaptist]

Greeted this morning at church with “It’s Christmastime” by a person standing next to an Advent wreath. We then proceeded to sing Christmas songs that were billed as fitting for Advent.

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“Hopeful people are troublemakers in the world.”

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“[T]he semantically full reality of sacramental practice, itself deriving from the semantically ‘saturated’ materiality that is the historical body of Jesus, allows us to see our material environment as pregnant with significance which we may or may not immediately grasp.” ~RW

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“Humanity’s vocation is not simply to be optimally human in the sense of exemplifying its natural qualities as perfectly as possible, but to be actively engaged in the harmonizing of the created order as part of a ‘liturgical’ service offered to God.”
~Rowan Williams

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“...the heart of Paul’s theology of the resurrection is not so much the overcoming of death for this human individual as the expansion of the effect of Jesus’ actual bodily life to include the life of the believing community and, ultimately, the cosmos itself.” ~Rowan Williams

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Good discussion of this line from Bonhoeffer: “God hates visionary dreaming.” https://t.co/tcxFbILw6Y

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El Paso, Dayton;
Violence threatens us all.
Prophets say, “How long?”

#notasermonhaiku
#notevenaprayer