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There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that’s what led to my downward spin.

Barbara Brown Taylor

Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.
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Character Church Meaningful
God does some of God’s best work with people who are seriously lost.
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Lost People Seriously
We’re children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We’re also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.
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Children Daughter Son
Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices…. Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.
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Choices Healing Responsibility
Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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Metaphorical Science Scientific
Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.
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Enough Lucky Prayer
I began to get notes from people saying they were sorry to hear I’d left ministry. And for a while, I halfway believed they were right, that I’d left.
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Ministry People Sorry
When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, ‘Here, I guess, since this is where I am.’
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Feet Looks Want
It’s difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.
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Conflict Difficult Tagged
Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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Kindness Names Use
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
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Self Tradition World
To be in the mainline is to have a history and not simply to be an amalgam, a community church of who knows what that came from who knows where.
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Church Community Knows
You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.
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Heart Jesus Lying
The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There’s a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.
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Eye Loss Self
I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was…it wasn’t until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.
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Becoming Faithful might
To be fully human is perhaps why I’m Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.
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Christian Jesus Way

There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that’s what led to my downward spin.

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There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that’s what led to my downward spin.

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