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@christiancentury.bsky.social“I wasn’t mourning a friend. I hadn’t lost a colleague. And yet something was gone, and the loss shot through me with the force that struck Annie Dillard and that weasel all those years ago.” – Danielle Tumminio Hansen
@christiancentury.bsky.social“In his rarely published 1967 essay ‘The Angel and the Machine,’ Thomas Merton suggests that the more the machine takes over for us, the less connectivity and interaction we have with angels, with the unknown, with the silences of our faith.”
– Cassidy Hall
@christiancentury.bsky.social“It’s hard to block the transition to solar and wind energy in most of the world but very easy to do in the US, where our political system allows those with lots of money to game that system spectacularly.”
– @billmckibben.bsky.social, interviewed by David J. Wood
@christiancentury.bsky.social“When the law defers to economics, it is challenging to speak in moral terms about the economic system. Rhetoric of equity, fairness, and justice is replaced by the language of freedom, choice, and contract.”
– Jesse Zink reviews Mehrsa Baradaran’s The Quiet Coup
@christiancentury.bsky.social“The real magic of the Owens sisters is the special comfort of their female-centric world.”
– Kathryn Reklis on Practical Magic 2
@christiancentury.bsky.social“One thing about the Monstrous Bitch—she always comes back. ‘Patriarchy will never be safe from her,’ warns Eleanor Johnson" – @jessicamesman.bsky.social
@christiancentury.bsky.social“Jim O’Connell is founder and now, four decades later, president of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program. It’s the largest and most comprehensive enterprise of its kind in the nation, serving upward of 15,000 unhoused people.”
– Peter W. Marty
@christiancentury.bsky.social“She won the Pulitzer Prize for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek in 1975 and was awarded a National Humanities Medal in 2015. But none of this says what she meant to us. She was visionary, prophet, and mystic, and there are no national prizes in those arenas.” – Amy Frykholm
@christiancentury.bsky.social“As a society we are pretty terrible at conflict. We oscillate between avoidance and dehumanizing, abusive conflict. We haven’t been taught how to hold what I call ‘healthy heat.’”
– Priya Parker, in an interview by Martin B. Copenhaver
@christiancentury.bsky.social“As a consumer of whispers, I want the supply to be fresh and constant. As a person in the rooms that are whispered about, I have to do my best to see that none of that supply comes from me or anyone else there.”
– Ben Dueholm
@christiancentury.bsky.social“Roland Biermann’s second iteration brought the sculpture to Trinity Church Wall Street in New York City, situating the stations at the nexus of worldly commerce and spiritual praxis.” – art commentary from Aaron Rosen
@christiancentury.bsky.social“As both a spiritual resource and a work of contemplative art, this collection succeeds in what it sets out to do: to widen the circle of who can bless and what is worthy of blessing.”
– Marissa Papula reviews Christine Valters Paintner
@christiancentury.bsky.social“When I first encountered the fifth-century theologian Augustine, it was not serendipitous and certainly not love at first sight. He was simply another author asking the question I was asking: What is it to live?” – Jessica Lee (read ⬇️)
@christiancentury.bsky.social“Unlike sexuality, which could be gradually disclosed in trusted relationships, race is always already public—marked, politicized, and inescapable. It implicates more than identity; it implicates power. It is not a difference to be embraced but a system to be confronted.”
– @gerardomarti.bsky.social
@christiancentury.bsky.social“We so often believe we are free to do and be whatever we imagine for ourselves. But today I am reminded of everything we cannot control, the choices we have to make and live with in a world that offers us so few options.”
– @brianbantum.bsky.social
@christiancentury.bsky.social“I have to remind myself when I’m listening to a testimony, or hearing the stories of young men in prison, or going alongside someone unpacking their divorce—whenever I find myself asking, ‘What really happened?’ I have to remind myself that it doesn’t really matter.” – Julian DeShazier
@christiancentury.bsky.social“@bonniekristian.bsky.social’s defense of evangelicalism relies upon an insistence that most evangelicals are basically apolitical. The movement is not, she insists, a front for political or cultural conservatism.”
– review by Sam Gee: www.christiancentury.org/books/soluti...
@christiancentury.bsky.social“Yusuf was as gentle as he was tall; his kindness ran as deep as the Atlantic. Yusuf helped trim my sails, like a sailor does to keep the boat in the seam just next to the direction of the wind.” – Samuel C. Hughes, one of the winners of our Readers Write essay contest
@christiancentury.bsky.social“I decided there were good and bad ways to read a text. I went from listening to sermons to judging them. My snob origin story begins the same as most others do: with passion.” – Julian DeShazier
@christiancentury.bsky.social“Annie Dillard made faith visceral and mystical, ascetic and charged all at once.”
– Danielle Tumminio Hansen
