Becoming Quote by John I. Jenkins

I think what we're really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.

— Alan Green

I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset.

— Parker J. Palmer

When serious people of good faith disagree, they've got to go back into the narratives and come at it again. One of the problems…

— Walter Brueggemann

Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

— John Shelby Spong

We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don't believe. They think that by professing it they're doing…

— Dallas Willard

I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful…

— Roger Mahony

I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors…

— Michael Horton

Is it at all surprising that the number of those who hold the opinions of the Church in light esteem should so rapidly increase?…

— John William Draper

“I think more people would stay active in church, if they didn't get so offended by the actions of members. Sometimes, you have to…

— Shannon L. Alder

“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

The great danger of the new media is that it seems to relish the superficial. There has been an ethos within the Church for…

— Robert Barron

one trouble with all the churches is that they have too many incurable saints in them, men and women who pray too much and…

— Corra May Harris