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"What do we do with a religion that's so tied up in patriarchy and colonization and hetero-sexism and sexism and anti-feminism and anti-blackness? How do we redeem that? Matthew 8 holds the key. Centurion, call the marginalized "lord," because they are the decedents of the role of Israel in society. They have the embodied spiritual experience to understand that the gospel is not a get-out-of-hell-free card, and the gospel is not a license to claim the world for yourself. The gospel is a demand to lay down what you have for the healing of the world, and anything less is. not. good. news."

-Science Mike

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A chilling examination of the reality and consequences of the purity culture within Evangelical Christianity.

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Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God. But that’s why Jesus is so lethal. It’s almost like he’s revealing the danger of religion, without throwing it out. - Richard Rohr

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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the word, but neither are you free to abandon it. - The Talmud

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It’s like people think that love is only a success if it lasts forever, which is ridiculous. Love is a success if it changes us, if it grows us. So there is no love that’s wasted. - Glennon Doyle, No Filter podcast

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The herald of adventure is often dark, loathly, or terrifying, judged evil by the world; yet if one could follow, the way would be opened through the walls of day into the dark where the jewels glow... the stars in the bosom of immortal night. - Joseph Campbell

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It would be the preachers and the evangelists abandoning the heart of Jesus, perverting the words of the Bible for their agenda, selling their souls for a high place overlooking the world. They would be the very false prophets they told us that we should like hell run from. These supposed disciples of Jesus would be the ones to betray him with a kiss and send him to a bloody, undignified end. - John Pavlovitz

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The measure of a church is not who it ‘invites,’ but who it invites to LEAD. - Glennon Doyle

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Science is the spiritual director of this age. - Sister Joan Chittister

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One of the lessons we have derived from the events of our time is that we cannot dwell at ease under the sun of our civilization, that man is the least harmless of all beings. We feel how every minute in our civilization is packed with tension like the interlude between lightning and thunder. Man has not advanced very far from the coast of chaos... If culture is to survive, it is in need of defenses all along the shore... This is no time for neutrality. - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity

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Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question, even when it is not entirely true, over the mercy and grace of God. - Richard Rohr, Falling Upward

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If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God. - Richard Rohr, Falling Upward

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Every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us. - Richard Rohr, Falling Upward

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The best way to get rid of your enemy is to increase their capacity for happiness. - Deepak Chopra

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If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier. - Amy Poehler, Yes, Please!