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You see, my son,” continues Kolbe softly, “the saints are not so different than you or me. Their stories reveal them to be very much human. However, this frailty does not weaken their witness or holiness, but rather extends to us the invitation to the same life amid our own frailty.

Strength of conviction for ones faith is celebrated by the church- except when that conviction runs contrary to the status quo.

As a pastor, I do not speak for my community. I speak from it.

When circumstances demand that we do something that is not natural to our temperament or talents, we must sometimes intentionally choose by discipline what we inherently lack by nature.

Civility is an affectation if it is not informed by some deeper quality of character.

Tolerance is a poor substitute for embrace.

When I realized that I was an introvert and what that meant, I actually became more outgoing, more confident in social situations, and began to enjoy scenarios I used to find unbearable. Why? Because, in understanding what I needed with respect to replenishing my energy, I was able to set limits and boundaries that freed me to be more engaged.

An unattended grief all too easily becomes poisonous guilt and shame.

If your orthodoxy doesn’t fully affirm compassion- if it is not, itself, deeply compassionate- then it is no orthodoxy at all.

God is less interested in you performing well and more interested in seeing you flourish.

The healthy introvert understands that their personality is not a deterministic, fixed reality that they are powerless against. Being an introvert is never an excuse to shirk responsibility or to justify bad habits.

Forgiveness and consequences are not mutually exclusive.

Compassion without a commitment to justice is not compassion at all.

One of the clearest indications of privilege is the freedom to opt out.

Sometimes the silence of God is simply Him waiting for us to accept what we already know to know right and true.

Incarnation is good news not because it offers us a way out of the mess of this world, but because it shows us what God’s love looks like here and now.

When you assume the goodness in one group is an exception but believe the goodness in your group is the norm, you’re probably being prejudiced.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness could not colonize it.

The level of ‘acceptable’ dishonesty we Christians allow to avoid facing uncomfortable truths betrays our ideals as shallowly held.

Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing.

When Mary asserts explicitly that God is on the side of the poor, we can understand it within the tension of what it means to be blessed as the poor in spirit. Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing. Jesus is here declaring that the humble and repentant heart is the fertile soil of his kingdom.

You are not obligated to be an apologist for your life.

It is critical to note that our biases against the other are empowered less by our assumptions of their otherness and more by our assumptions about our own normality.

I prefer open hostility to the poisonous silence of supposed neutrality.

If our social justice is guided by retribution, we will simply perpetuate the use and abuse of power to inflict violence.

Do we honestly believe that the best witness we can have as Christians before a watching world is to show moral perfection? While that might convince some, our odds of pulling it off seem less than slim. In truth, the most compelling witness to our faith can be a willingness to humbly accept responsibility for our failings and seek to restore relationships at any cost.

Often it is the poor who recognize emptiness before the rest of us – and for obvious reasons. While I am not suggesting that poverty predisposes people to some form of righteousness, I have seen how their circumstances often free them from much of the pretense that our relative privilege affords us. So while the poor are not godlier on the basis of their poverty, they are often at least more authentic in their brokenness, and thus, perhaps, closer to honestly recognizing what true emptiness is.

It’s important to take life very seriously. That is why we must laugh at every opportunity.

The mission of God’s people is not simply directed at saving people’s souls from a bad life-after-death into a good life-after-death, but it addresses and hopefully touches the injustice and violence around us – poverty, racism, sexism, economic exploitation, war, environmental destruction – where salvation, justice, and peace can merge.

Agreeing to disagree’ isn’t license to hold hateful and condemning beliefs about me as though it doesn’t negatively impact our relationship.

If you think it is more important to be moral than loving, you probably don’t understand what either word really means.

The weaponization of belonging is one of the most “anti-christ” dynamics I have ever encountered.

By making God more monstrous than us, we circumvent the need for redemption.

There is nothing like the moving solidarity of survivors to bring out seemingly boundless impulse to deflect, deny, and defend.

We celebrate the differences among us, even that which we cannot reconcile, not in denial of the absolute, but in the gift of humility that those differences require of us. Without denying our differences, we no longer allow them to categorize or divide us. It is in the diversity that the image of God is most fully reflected in and through us.

The excesses of identity politics pale in comparison to the monolithic normative realities that dominate our culture.

It is entirely possible to work for justice without thirsting for blood.

There is more hope in honest brokenness than in the pretense of false wholeness.

The seeds of liberation are planted across the common table as we break bread together.

One of the deadliest tools of powerful systems is narrow definitions of what is “normal” and the reduction of difference to deviance.

Shalom is what love looks like in the flesh. The embodiment of love in the context of a broken creation, shalom is a hint at what was, what should be, and what will one day be again. Where sin disintegrates and isolates, shalom brings together and restores. Where fear and shame throw up walls and put on masks, shalom breaks down barriers and frees us from the pretense of our false selves.

The fire of fear blazes with the fuel of ignorance leaving nothing but the ashes of hate behind.

Disgust is a learned behaviour that finds fertile soil in ignorance, yielding a bountiful harvest of alienation, oppression, and hate.

Deviant’ is the weapon of the normative to discredit and demonize the Other.

If our desire for justice is not rooted primarily in the pursuit of restoration, then reconciliation will be nearly impossible to achieve. It is precisely because grace is undeserved that makes it grace.

When you’re accustomed to being considered ‘normal’, difference feels like a perversion.