“Mission begins with a kind of explosion of joy. The news that the rejected and crucified Jesus is alive is something that cannot possibly be suppressed. It must be told. Who could be silent about such a fact? The mission of the Church in the pages of the New Testament is like the fallout from a vast explosion, a radioactive fallout which is not lethal but life-giving.” GivingKindFactsJoyJesusChurchAliveNewsPagesSilentMissionsRejectedTestamentExplosionsNew TestamentFallouts Book:The Gospel in a Pluralist Society Source: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
“Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.” ThinkingStatesGovernmentChurchForgetReadyPagesRedConcernHandleTapeNot ReadyRed Tape Author:Michael Tanner
“I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept.” SchoolChurchGrewGrew UpPagesHigh SchoolConceptsAbstractTemplesConcentrationSuburbsAnti SemitismBaltimoreYearbookJewish FamilyHigh School Yearbook Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.” HumansChurchPrideHorrorDespairPagesNotesIncludingRevengeLustRangeExistentialWrathHuman ExperienceBassIncompetenceChoirTenorsChurch Choir Author:Connie Willis
“Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely. If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other forms” PeopleIfsFeelsFirstsPersonsIdeasSeemsGovernmentWould BeFormChoicesIndividualProcessChurchViewsAcceptingIdentityPagesPoint Of ViewHipsMultipleTechnologicalEraseHoodWikipediaFlavourAbhorrentCulpritMultiple ChoiceWeb Page Author:Jaron Lanier
“I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)” ThinkingMenFeelsYearsBelieveChurchReligiousMy OwnPracticeFourLandJudgingWallMountainMassPagesWorthyNeighborClimbsBelieve In GodWeekendElderlyLawnsRakesFour WallsHaig Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules