"I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies……" — Carter Heyward
"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 us priestesses. They can call us all the names in the world -- it's better than being invisible."
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Carter Heyward
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12 Quotes by Carter Heyward
Carter Heyward has 12 quotes on this site.
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In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from…
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If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another…
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Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of…
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Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to…
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Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall…
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If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.
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We are born in relation, we live in relation, we die in relation. There is, literally, no such human place…
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But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and…
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Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to…
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The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating,…
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