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what substantiates this death experience as a union in the person of Jesus is that divine action enters death as ministry. When Paul is ministered to, in and through his death experience he is taken from cross to resurrection, he is swept up into participation in the ontic union of the Trinity, giving a new narrative arc to his very being.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
We live in a time—call it a secular age—when society has devalued the pastor and yet we nevertheless yearn for ministry.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
To read Augustine in the twenty-first century is to gain a vantage point that makes all of our freedom look like addiction.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
It is such divine synergy, people’s willingness to creatively work with the hand that life and sin and circumstance and God have dealt them that is our deepest life of prayer and devotion. This is “doing the will of God”!
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
the incarnational worldview, which is authentic Christianity.1 When all of you is there, you will know. When all of you is present, the banquet will begin.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Who or what am I, over and above my character and personality? There is no distinct inner ‘me’ that could confront the influence of my character. I just am my character and so what my character does is mine. No one is the complete cause of his or her own character; we are all products of our past and our environment.