“In addition to the transience of their members, churches themselves face a crisis of hypermobility. Many churches have put down only shallow… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“In addition to the transience of their members, churches themselves face a crisis of hypermobility. Many churches have put down only shallow roots in… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“As someone once said, we’re in the world but not of the world, so we can be for the world.” — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“the fuller story of the New Testament is that God’s people have been resurrected as the body of Christ. Just as Jesus is the… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly. The Church [has] to learn how to… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly.Cling to them, survey them from every… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“Open-handed generosity and caring for the poor and marginalized as if we were caring for Jesus himself are extensions of our worship.” — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“In Western culture, we are also profoundly shaped by the ethics of individualism. We learn early on to follow our own stories wherever they… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“We can start work we won’t see the end of. “Plant sequoias,” urges Wendell Berry: Put your faith in the two inches of humus… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“[Our minds] were given to us for another purpose: to raise to awareness the communal reality of nature, to overcome separateness and alienation by… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
“But lost in that sea of (valid) criticism is the perhaps subtler critique that in an age of consumerism, economic imperialism and what Martin… — C. Christopher Smith Copy Share Image
