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You are cleansed from guilt, and you are becoming a cleaner, healthier, more whole person.

Brian D. McLaren

Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I hope will not be lost on us. Are we learning anything, or simply spinning harder in the cycle of violence?
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Killers Spinning Violence
A friend of mine says that in the world of religion we often have ignorance on fire and intelligence on ice.
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Fire Ignorance Passion
The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.
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Advertisements Crosses Distraction
The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can’t yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit’s help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable.
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Church Grace Ideas
The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
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Brilliant Church Good Visionaries
Seventh-Gay Adventists isn’t just a helpful movie, important for the way it can help congregations of any denomination deal graciously and truthfully with the issue of homosexuality.
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Art Gay Issues Truthfully
Our networks of dialogue and action thus extend beyond Christian communities to persons of all faiths, as well as to communities that are not themselves faith-based. We welcome allies and allegiances wherever we find common cause.
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Communities Network Our Persons
You can’t capture it in a word or a formula. When you get to that humble place where the beauty of God has overwhelmed you,
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God Humble Overwhelmed
One of the things that’s happening to a lot of us is that there’s this vision of the beauty of God that transports us and that takes us to a new depth and a new height. It’s one of those things about beauty.
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Humble Thinking Vision
I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.
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Art Faces Jesus
I googled some pictures of sundials to check that it was the tall shadow casting bit (it is) and then discovered that Saint Sulpice in Paris has a rather fascinating large gnomon- which I shall endeavour to see on my next visit to that fair city. Thanks for such a great word, which I shall try to remember.
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Country Discovered Gnomon Shadow Sundials
Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.
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Bible Biblical Lenses
A shared reappraisal of Jesus’ message could provide a unique space or common ground for urgently needed religious dialogue – and it doesn’t seem an exaggeration to say that the future of our planet may depend on such dialogue.
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Future Needful Provide Say Urgently
We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry.
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Christian God Humble Poetry
I think it changes everything. You can say the same creed that you said before, but now it’s not a creed that grasps God in the fist of the words, but it’s a creed that points up to a beauty that’s beyond anybody’s grasp.
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Anybody Beauty Change Everything Grasp
The thing I love about The Beatitudes Society is they represent faith and intelligence on fire and there’s enthusiasm and passion and a realization that a more open and progressive approach to faith is something to celebrate.
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Intelligence Progressive Realization Thing

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