Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile. — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we who are christian are heirs to a body-despising, woman-fearing, sexually repressive religious tradition. If we are to continue as members of the church, we must challenge and transform it at the root. What is required… — Carter Heyward Copy Share
For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower,… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is,… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning. — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us would love to call… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature. — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
“Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.” — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action. — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
