Peter

“The burden of what Jesus says is this: give it away. Give it away gladly. Make friends by your generosity. The door to a gospel future is by generosity, outrageous, intentional giving away in the present to create a viable future. That seems to me such an urgent word, because we are so deeply caught in cycles of greed and affluence and self-indulgence and acquisitiveness of a fearful kind that will yield no human future.”
― Walter Brueggemannggemann

“As Christians, we have become so fixated on our roles as servants that we miss out on the relationships of mutuality that the Spirit wants to knit between people.”
― Anonymous, Subversive Jesus: An Adventure in Justice, Mercy, and Faithfulness in a Broken World

“Ours is a time like the flood, like the exile, when the certitudes abandon us, the old reliabilities have become unsure, and “things fall apart.” The falling part is happening for conservatives, and it is happening for liberals. It is happening all around us, and to all of us.

In such a context of enormous fearfulness, our propensity is to enormous destructiveness. Grow more strident, more fearful, more anxious, more greedy for our own way, more despairing, and consequently, more brutal. That propensity to destructiveness is all around us. On many days we succumb to its power; we succumb to the need to look only after ourselves and our kind, only selfishly, only ideologically, only “realistically.”
― Walter Brueggemann

“Celebrating what we hope for together is better than fighting over what we believe separately.”
― Steven Charleston, Ladder to the Light: An Indigenous Elder's Meditations on Hope and Courage