“If lack is the root of injustice, then gratitude is the root of justice.”
– C. Christopher Smith & John Pattison in Slow Church p.182
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“Many Christians who oppose the teaching of evolution in school accept unquestioningly an economic Darwinism that exalts competition, scoffs at cooperation, and leaves for dead the slow and straggling wounded.”
– C. Christopher Smith & John Pattison in Slow Church p.158
“To lament is to come alongside those who grieve, to sit with them (literally and figuratively) in the silence and to recognize there that in God’s interconnected creation, their pain is our pain … To lament is not to offer words of comfort; it is not to try and fix the problem or to prevent it from ever happening again.”
– C. Christopher Smith & John Pattison in Slow Church p.115
“Nationalism is a shortcut around our call to be peacemakers.”
– C. Christopher Smith & John Pattison in Slow Church p.108
“[T]he good ends for which we are striving can’t be separated from our means.”
– C. Christopher Smith & John Pattison in Slow Church p.90
“To feel at home in a place you have to have some prospect of staying there.”
– Wendell Berry quoted by C. Christopher Smith & John Pattison in Slow Church p.70
“[T]he sacrificial way of Jesus may be calling us to forsake the supersized life.”
– C. Christopher Smith & John Pattison in Slow Church p.44
My church, Northridge, started the series on 1 Corinthians that I went to Corinth to help film material for. You can check out the first message here or, if you live in Rochester, just come check out the second on Sunday!
Our man is definitely thinking outside of the box.
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