“Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.” IfsMenShouldTryingPersonsHas BeensSelfChristianJesusIndividualProcessTermBornLosesLossLove YouTaughtDefinedFulfillmentLove YourselfSplitsCommandmentsOne LoveNurturingAssertionManlinessHis Loss Book:We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader
“The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the jetsam of smug bibilolatrists who claim to know precisely what God is thinking and exactly what he plans to do.” ThinkingKnowsChristianLeftLossPlansClaimsAngryCynicalTranscendenceCapriciousFlotsam Author:Brennan Manning
“Our generation is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of divine revelation, to the content of God's will, to the power of His redemption, and to the authority of His Word. For this loss it is paying dearly in a swift relapse into paganism.” RealityChristianLostReligiousLossGenerationsDivineAuthorityGods WillRedemptionRevelationsPaganismOur GenerationTruth Of GodRelapseDivine RevelationHis Loss Author:Carl F. H. Henry