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“God never intended most human beings to become philosophers or theologians, but God does want all humans to represent the very Sympathy and Empathy of God.”
― Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

“Our work is to call each other home, to call to one another’s spirits and say, “This is for you. This is what it means to be human, to love and be loved. Let’s learn from one another as we go.”
― Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

“When we begin to name God, we find that God has suddenly become an image of us, our own cultural understandings.”
― Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

“Systems of race are set up to create hierarchy, and we must recognize that even these labels fall short. What does it mean to”
― Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

“The problem with the white evangelical church is that assimilation is subtle; when you walk through that sanctuary door, the assumption is that you participate, you oblige, and you don’t cause a fuss.”
― Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

“White supremacy within our politics and within our churches should be addressed on a number of levels, but if we cannot admit that we have a problem in the first place, nothing will ever change.”
― Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

“One of the church’s biggest blind spots is ignoring the stories of those on the outside.”
― Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

“Unless and until we can enjoy this, so much of what passes for Christianity will amount to little more than well-disguised narcissism and self-referential politics. We see this phenomenon playing out in the de facto values of people who strongly identify as Christian. Often they are more racist, classist, and sexist than non-Christians. “Others can carry the burden and the pain of injustice, but not my group,” they seem to say.”
― Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

“Many of us were taught a vision of God as Tormentor when we were small, impressionable children, and it got deposited in the lowest part of our brain stems, like all traumatic injuries do.”
― Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

“We are creating many para-church organizations, and some new studies claim that if we look at the statistics, we will see that Christians are not leaving Christianity as much as they are realigning with groups that live Christian values in the world, instead of just gathering to again hear the readings, recite the creed, and sing songs on Sunday.”
― Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

“Frankly, a new humility is emerging in Christianity as we begin to recognize our many major mistakes in the past, especially our tragic treatment of indigenous people in almost all the nations that Christians colonized, along with our silence about and full complicity with slavery, destructive consumerism, apartheid, white privilege, the devastation of the planet, homophobia, classism, and the Holocaust.”
― Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

“We were largely taught what to believe instead of how to believe.”
― Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

“often, evangelism is erasure, and a listening relationship is something altogether different.”
― Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

“First, whining and complaining about unfavorable conditions does nothing to resolve them.”
― Damon Zahariades, The Mental Toughness Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Facing Life's Challenges, Managing Negative Emotions, and Overcoming Adversity with Courage and Poise