We Didn't Add Doctrines We Erased Them

"Most attempts to convince the world that Jesus was a "really great guy, not mean and dogmatic like You-Know-Who" (usually meaning Republicans in the religious right) carry their task all the way to the point of hiding or eliminating the exclusivity of Jesus.

"Well, yes, but he didn't mean all that. These are doctrines added later by the church."

Practically the opposite is true - Jesus said it very clearly. It is the church who has often tried to explain it away."

- John Eldredge. Beautiful Outlaw

I Want To Be With The Rejected Ones

I want to be outside with the misfits, with the rebels, the dreamers, second-chance givers, the radical grace lavishers, the ones with arms wide open, the courageously vulnerable, and among even—or maybe especially—the ones rejected by the Table as not worthy enough or right enough. 

- Sara Bessey

Religious Ideology

Much common religion is ideology more than any real encounter with Presence.

~ Richard Rohr

What God Wanted Guve

"The Judeo-Christian God wanted to give us Godself, but we preferred ideas and laws.'

~ Richard Rohr

Not About Protection of Church Doctrine Or Institution

"For too long we have thought of the Christian Life is essentially either involvement in political, economic, social concerns that wear us out and result in depression or activity which keeps the church intact and doctrinally pure. Our primary orientation cannot be an institution or some great cause or even other people, but first and forever to God......"

"Without the single-minded attentiveness of prayer we will rarely hear anything worth repeating or catch a vision worth asking anyone else to gaze upon."

(The Spiritual Life. John H. Westerhoff & John Eusden)