“So many people, if the truth were known, live their lives on two levels. The principles they fight about are often at odds with the complicated and often frustrated lives they live. This is why there is so much intensity.” — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“The practical consequence of both of the teachings noted is to encourage homosexual promiscuity. Church members can engage in many short-term liaisons without raising… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed. — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“The gospel, then, is not a message about the salvation of individuals from the world, but news about a world transfigured, right down to… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means.” — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present. — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“Personal redemption cannot take place apart from the redemption of our social structures.” — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
“There is nothing, from DNA to the United Nations, that does not have God at its core. Everything has a spiritual aspect. Everything is… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
