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At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed,…

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Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.
Since I was introduced to the practice of God's presence, which in turn led me into the contemplative way, I have nearly…
Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You…
To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on…
It used to be that Christian institutions and systems of dogma sustained the spiritual life of Christians. Increasingly, spirituality itself is what…
The church has been preoccupied with the question, 'What happens to your soul after you die?' AS IF THE REASON FOR JESUS…
Tony [Campolo] and I might disagree on the details, but I think we are both trying to find an alternative to both…
What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan?”. What if he didn't come to start a new religion-but rather came to…
The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it,…
Jesus doesn’t dominate the other, avoid the other, colonize the other, intimidate the other, demonize the other, or marginalize the other. He…
Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I…
One of the things that's happening to a lot of us is that there's this vision of the beauty of God that…

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The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to… — Thomas Merton
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts… — Joseph Brodsky
The awareness of the quality of space in out photos is akin to our awareness of the very air in our photos,… — Jay Maisel
McDonald's is a people business, and that smile on that counter girl's face when she takes your order is a vital part… — Ray Kroc
I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing Im concerned about is the NBAs image. I… — Antonio Davis
The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success,… — Nathaniel Branden
The question is not: do we believe in God? but rather: does God believe in us? And the answer is: only an… — Kenneth Patchen
The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the… — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image. — Jonathan Sacks
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was… — Barack Obama
Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption. — Walter Benjamin

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