I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Though the world may often appear to be more charitable than the church, it is crucial to remember that, for the church,… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, North… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I am not convinced that the U.S. is more religious than Britain. Even if more people go to church in America, I… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Though the world may often appear to be more charitable than the church, it is crucial to remember that, for the church, the care… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and state because… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image