Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is not mysticism, but Gnosticism. Biblical mysticism is the attempt to exit 'this world' to an alternative… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
The gift our enemy may be able to bring us: to see aspects of ourselves that we cannot discover any other way than through our enemies. Our friends seldom tell us these things; they are our friends precisely because they… — 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
