“I pray that we come to see that another world is possible, and we come to be participants in making it so.”
“The Bible is not an argument, it is a record of human experience. The point is not to prove that it’s the word of God or it’s inspired or it’s whatever-is-the-current-word-people-are-using, the point is to enter in to its stories with such intention and vitality that you find what it is that inspired people to write these books.”
“Literal readings of nonliteral texts can also lead to fraudulent readings, dogmatic tenacity to ahistorical or unscientific claims, and the loss of credibility for those who insist on nonsensical interpretations.”
“Crossan said that if you took someone who knew nothing of Jesus, but did understand that religious-political powder keg of first-century Palestine — tensions between various Jewish groups with different ideas about God and how to live in their own land under Roman rule, and tensions between Jewish and Greco-Roman customs, now centuries old — and then handed that person the Gospel of Mark, he wouldn’t be far into it before he would ask, ‘Who is this Jesus?’ and ‘When is he going to be killed?‘”
“Be loving critics and critical lovers of the institutional church.”
“Every long march happens one step at a time. A step in the right direction should always be applauded and encouraged. In fact that’s the only thing in history that has ever paved the way for the second step to be taken.”
“This is just one of the things you lose forever when you lose a person: the ability to make them happy.”
“A mistake has been made here, and no one wants to correct it.”
“When we use the term con artist, we typically place the emphasis on the first word while forgetting the implications of the second: that there is, after all, a real art to fleecing people.”
“In the year A.D. 2014, journalists will be writing on the centenary of the Great War — that is, if there has not been a greater war.”
“NASA is growing cress, turnips, and basil, which are no one’s favorite foods (well, maybe basil), and can’t really go together to make a decent salad.”
“A Green Oak Township man was injured Thursday evening when he accidentally shot himself in the buttocks at a Home Depot store in Brighton.”
“They looked like little angels – like Botticelli Graces singing together for the first time.”
“There is nothing you can do about it so stop worrying.” (via Steve Buchheit)
“Obama plays ‘Knockout Game’ on defenseless child”
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