Challenges Quote by Stanley Hauerwas

“One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of an ecclesial culture to produce Christians.” quote by Stanley Hauerwas — Download Open image

“One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of an ecclesial culture to produce Christians.”

Stanley Hauerwas

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