Christian fellowship Quote by Kenda Creasy Dean

“Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, say Smith and Denton, seems to be “colonizing many historical religious traditions and, almost without anyone noticing, converting believers in the…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

“The essential mark of maturity in Christians—as in peach trees—is generativity. Mature faith bears fruit. Mature Christians are branches on which God’s love is…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

“Foolish faith comes from the security of knowing that we live in God’s embrace, and with that knowledge comes a peculiar kind of courage.…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

“As young people contribute to the faith community, their competence as members of that community grows; it is in doing the work of ministry…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

“If teenagers lack an articulate faith, maybe it is because the faith we show them is too spineless to merit much in the way…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

“What we can say with some certainty is that American young people have enormous trouble putting faith into words. It was unclear whether the…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

“Part of our skittishness about Christian perfection is linguistic confusion. The English word "perfect" has absorbed the Greek notion of "teleos". When the Greeks…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

“When we downshift Christian education from the paradigm of expertise to a paradigm of love, we do not dilute the importance of rigorous theological…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

“divine grace is a gift, but not one we get to keep. Christ sends us into the world as he was sent: to embody…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

“We may question what we believe, but most of us are pretty clear about who we love, and who loves us. It is such…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

“Faith does not mean mimicking Jesus, but participating in his self-giving love—not because we have somehow chosen to be like him, but because, incredibly,…

— Kenda Creasy Dean

“With God's breath in the church we are called to exhale, but not because it's a morally good thing to do but because we…

— Kenda Creasy Dean