One Coin Found Quotes

“There are few praise and worship songs confessing how we participate in the brokenness of others through systems of oppression. There is rarely a single word in prepared liturgies to remind me that just because I didn’t cause the particular action that hurt a particular person, I am not freed from the communal problem.”
― Emmy Kegler, One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins

“need a community that will also provide for my safety. No good has been done by further wounding the walking wounded. Love asks me to call communities—family, friends, and especially churches—to account. The church, especially, is burdened with this call. As proclaimers of the good news and servants of the love of God, we are accountable to create a space that protects the vulnerable and invites us into healing.”
― Emmy Kegler, One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins

“The American church proclaimed that faith was a self-alignment with right doctrine, a confession that switched the eternal railroad track from hell to heaven but made no alterations in the journey here on earth—except to spread the truth of the God who was not interested in the pains of this world, only the number of souls that would make it to the next.”
― Emmy Kegler, One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins