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Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.

Barbara Brown Taylor

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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Metaphorical Science Scientific
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
I don’t have time for a job that doesn’t leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.
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Jobs Praying Quiet
The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don’t know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I’ve been in danger of losing.
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Community Losing Pieces
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 miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.
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Home Nursing People
Humanity can be pretty stinky.
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Humanity Pretty Stinky
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
I’m a follower of the Christ path, and that opens a huge discussion about what we even mean by words like “Christian.”
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Christian Followers Mean
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
I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I’ll capitalize both of those R’s, because God is a word that means different things to different people, but we might all agree it’s what is most real.
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Mean People Real
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
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Christian Inspirational Religious
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
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Behave Believe Politics
Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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Kindness Names Use
Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes…swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.
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Believe Needs Want
I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.
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Order Self Thinking

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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