Sublime

While previous generations gave out of a sense of duty, today’s and tomorrow’s givers do so based on a perceived sense of value.

The good news is, this sense of value isn’t necessarily about “what’s in it for me?” but “what good is this really doing?”

If we want people to give, we need to regularly show them the real-life results of that giving, thro

Evangelical churches have done better than mainline ones at combining authenticity and morality into tones the bobo can understand: chiefly, the use of self-help tactics and therapeutic language.

Manasseh will become a people, but Ephraim will become a multitude.

It was boboism that radically changed our conception of faith formation, allowing youthfulness to mutate the transcendent call of Jesus to follow into a therapeutic pursuit of the self without divine action.

Ananias shares in Paul’s death experience, through kenosis, by being Paul’s minister. Although Ananias is free to protect himself and live for his own preservation, although that is Ananias’s right (shown in his skepticism), he is invited instead, through his own experience with Jesus’s personhood, to enter Paul’s

Some Christians need to understand that we can be right in our beliefs but wrong in how we communicate them.

We are calling it a yeshiva to reclaim the cultural valence of the term—an intellectual and spiritual center where Torah radiates forth into the broader community, and the community feeds back into the yeshiva.

“No he did not,” Dunham retorts. “He did,” Karr assures her. She reflects on the experience: “I was so glad that I had turned it off. I got to help him to feel a little better or whatever, feel like he had some agency in the world. What did that cost me? Do you know what I mean? For me, a lot of times I walk into Mass and I look at people and I thi