Jesus was a badass
“The world Jesus inhabited was a world of fractious intensity. The Israel of Jesus, like the Israel of today, was a spiritual and literal battle zone. He was love in the most hostile environment imaginable.”
God's "No Leper Left Behind" Program by Nadia Bolz-Weber
“The good news is not that there is an inside group who have done the right things to release health and happiness in God’s favor and there is an outside group that doesn’t meet the requirements for a good life and that yay! - the church can make sure you are in the inside group. “
What do you think you don't deserve?
On our last day of A Weekend with David Whyte, he gave us a list of things to think of in order to live a deeper, fuller life. He talked about trying to figure out what you want in life.
Farewell letter
David said his friend John O’Donohue lived believing, “Wasn’t it amazing to have been in the world together at the same time?”