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Sam Pressler • Building societal structures to hold the messiness of our relationships
all, in Secular 3 righteousness is not our pursuit (as it would have been five hundred years ago), making frameworks of sacrifice, atonement, honor, and duty appear more as dusty relics than the pursuits of present existence. Rather, our desire is authenticity. Authenticity makes all hierarchical thoughts of justifying atonement seem ever odd, cutt
... See moreAndrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
For Paul’s song of faith formation to be transformational, its ethos and content must encompass his understanding of faith. This seems so logical it almost need not be said. But oddly, for many of our faith-formation programs today, there is a great divide between our processes of faith formation (the methods and approaches we use to pass on faith)
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The Nature of Love: A Theology,
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson • God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
The way that this modern moral order takes shape around chosen identity makes it complicated for pastors. If the church or the pastor tries too hard to shape a person’s life, it will be a violation of the modern moral order.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
Faith is the experience of sharing in the person of Christ. If faith is fidelity and loyalty to a new realm, this realm is nothing more than the very person of Jesus himself. To be “in Christ” is not to be in a religious or clairvoyant state, but it is to be in the person of Jesus, given back your own person in a communion of other persons who are
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They tell us that ‘God’ is not an idea contained in a form of words but a way of being towards others and towards Being itself. Reverent. Expectant. Wordless. Never controlling, because love and goodness cannot be compelled. We should do good for its own sake as if God did not exist.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Warren’s building, and his own style, represented an openness, even a partnership, in helping individuals find their own purpose by allowing Jesus to help each person flourish and overcome the malaise that the age of authenticity seemed to leave in the wake of its individualized freedom. Yet Warren did not do this by speaking against individualized
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Henry’s new mold was cast from a belief that divine action came not through duty to doctrines and traditions but through positive feelings—Henry was the first to so successfully mix Calvinism with Romanticism.