Banned Questions About the Bible

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We have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes

with community.

—Dorothy Day

You know what the good news is? It’s the end of the bad news.

—Ade Leason (Kiwi Ploughshares activist)

The Christian alternative to war is worship.

—Stanley Hauerwas

The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.

—William Gibson

The poor tell us who we are. The prophets tell us who we could be.

So we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

—Philip Berrigan

You can’t be a Christian, if you’re not willing to pick up your cross.

And, in the end, be crucifi ed on it. That’s the bottom line.

— Cornel West

There is no proof of God, only witnesses.

— Joshua Abraham Heschel

I’d rather go to hell with Jesus than heaven without him.

— OK, no one famous said that, but I say it all the time

Five Things to Do to Make the World a Better Place

1. Meditate daily on the life, teachings, crucifi xion, and resurrection of our
   Lord. This is something Martin Luther King Jr. had everyone in the civil
   rights movement commit to, and it’s having a powerful effect in my life.


2. Every time you pray, let the Lord’s Prayer be a part of it. Let the wonder
   of “on earth as it is in heaven” infuse this good news into your psyche
   until it appears in your dreams. And then let God’s dream for creation
   appear in your waking life.


3. Seek to memorize the Sermon on the Mount. I’m not there yet but
   this discipline of memorizing scriptures I fi nd very helpful and it’s an
   amazing grace when the Holy Spirit brings them to memory while you
   are working (start with the Beatitudes).


4. Find two or three people who are willing to hold you accountable to
   acting on a new imagination of grace. Choose small experiments (e.g.,
   become aware of God’s presence in those who are excluded at school or

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