The crisis w/the US church has almost nothing to do w/being liberal or conservative; it has to do w/giving up the faith & discipline of our baptism & settling for a common, generic US identity that is part patriotism, part consumerism, part violence & part affluence
-Brueggemann
@elijah_renz u read such poetry? Mary Oliver's poetry is a great example of American Transcendentalism – instructive in how to start noticing and being aware of the beauty found in nature :)
One of my teaching tools for Ephesians is a visual display of it. It reinforces at least 3 things: 1. The book is short, manageable. 2. Chapters are nonstandard lengths. 3. The second "half" (by chapters) is longer (by word count/column length) than the first.
there's a guy on my snap who once told me "you make me feel nothing" and intermittently sends me pictures of his beautiful cat (cudi). just thought you all should know.