She shrugged. "Ownership is a fragile concept.
Kay KenyonStichwörter: kindlehighlight
One of our group said that a lot of people in church spend a lot of time correcting each other these days, but in order to correct another person in love, you really have to know that person. Only then, she told us, can you practice the kind of community that the Didache teaches.
Tony JonesStichwörter: kindlehighlight
There are two ways,” he told me, “and they are love and not love. I choose love.
Tony JonesStichwörter: kindlehighlight
So many people, if the truth were known, live their lives on two levels. The principles they fight about are often at odds with the complicated and often frustrated lives they live. This is why there is so much intensity.
Walter WinkStichwörter: kindlehighlight
The polarization is such that the conservatives on this side have their prayer meeting and their choir meeting. And the liberals on this side have their prayer meeting and their choir meeting, and the two sides never get together and talk about it. The result is the tearing apart of the fabric of the body of Christ.
Walter WinkStichwörter: kindlehighlight
Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.
George R.R. MartinStichwörter: kindlehighlight
The practical consequence of both of the teachings noted is to encourage homosexual promiscuity. Church members can engage in many short-term liaisons without raising questions about their standing in the church. We tend not to pry into one another's private lives. But if a man brings another man to church with him regularly, if they give the same address and show signs of mutual affection, then there is likely to be a scandal. The dominant effect of church teaching is to encourage secret, temporary liaisons without commitment and to discourage long-term fidelity.
Walter WinkStichwörter: kindlehighlight
for God's sake, let's be done with the hypocrisy of claiming "I am a biblical literalist" when everyone is a selective literalist, especially those who swear by the antihomosexual laws in the Book of Leviticus and then feast on barbecued ribs and delight in Monday-night football, for it is toevali, an abomination, not only to eat pork but merely to touch the skin of a dead pig.
Walter WinkStichwörter: kindlehighlight
in Vancouver BC and drive south to a town named Medina, north of Bellingham, Washington.
Todd RussellStichwörter: kindlehighlight
south to a town named Medina, north of Bellingham, Washington. Today,
Todd RussellStichwörter: kindlehighlight
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