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Ok, I won't answer everything tonight, but 1 like=1 quote from a theologian
"love was his meaning" Julian of Norwich
"oh God, I didn't know you were so big" Sojourner Truth
If God became incarnate in a human being...so must be church.
Diana hayes
Diana hayes
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
MLK
MLK
Scattered throughout my teaching career is the mantra, there is no value-free space. It is impossible to do authentic liberation ethics sitting in armchairs pretending only to be dispassionate, color-blank, objective talking heads. -Katie Cannon
6. Theologians and other clerks,
You won't understand this book,
-- However bright your wits --
Marguerite Porete
You won't understand this book,
-- However bright your wits --
Marguerite Porete
7. Theology reminds us how little we know positively of God's inner nature...we must think w/ humility
. elizabeth Johnson
. elizabeth Johnson
The logic of merit is the natural way our hierarchical, patriarchal society functions. It is society’s way of judging, the ‘justice’ proper to it,”
Elsa tamez
Elsa tamez
8. The nation cannot profess xnity which makes the golden rule its foundation...and continue to deny equal opportunity for life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness of the Black race.
Ida B Wells
Ida B Wells
10. The body is God’s gracious gift and delight; it must never be treated with contempt or disrespect. We humans are body-persons: we do not possess bodies, we are bodies, and as body-persons we encounter, express and engage the world, others and God
M Shawn Copeland
M Shawn Copeland
11. It is so easy in ministry to try to become all things to all people, and therefore you lose the power of your witness. I tell all my doctoral students, “Get into therapy -- you have to know who you are if you’re going to survive in a doctoral program.”
Emilie Townes
Emilie Townes
I am “called to humility, to generosity, to relationships which often involve suffering or pain.” Ana Mercedes
13. “...the whole of Scripture still allow one to glimpse the practical-the*logical struggles which sought to realize the radical democratic religious vision of ekklesia in a socio-political and religious situation of Roman colonial imperialism.” Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza
14. “Oh, the abominations of slavery! Though Philemon be the proprietor, and Onesimus the slave, yet every case of slavery… indicates an oppressor, the oppressed, and the oppression. Slavery, in every case…involves a wrong, the deepest in wickedness.” Zilpha Elaw
15. To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forgo calling excessive attention to one's self and status. -Cornel West
16. “for the line of worldly wisdom…can never gauge the operations of the Spirit of God; and always either rejects them at once, or meets them with ‘How can these things be?’” Zilpha Elaw (again, because she's that awesome)
17. This trickster is...a holy fool, since tricksters engage in hopeful thoughts and practices, transgressing even their own cynicism and disillusionment. Their experience of the divine doesn't let them rest in their quest to live more closely to its elusive lure. Marion Grau
18. “there is many a saint in heaven who sometime was a heathen on earth” Margery Kempe
19. : "Prophecy is the voice that God has lent to the silent agony, a voice to the plundered…” Abraham Heschel
20. “God almighty is our loving Father, and God all wisdom is our loving Mother by nature, with the love and the goodness of the Holy Spirit...” Julian of Norwich (again, but duh)
21. American heritage is very much anti-Black, white supremacist....We have to tell that history for people who think that it doesn't exist, for people who think that their heritage is something that’s disassociated from the current moment. -Eboni Marshall Turman
22. The trinitarian value of difference has..been worked out in terms of sexual difference, yet even queer-friendly and feminist theologians...often repeat and sometimes heighten the historical proclivity...to encode masculinism and (symbolic) heterosexuality -Linn Tonstad
23. the rhetoric of Scripture seems to be contradictory to ...the rhetoric of empire, which advocates domination & submission. Hence, it is necessary to distinguish the sacred power of Scripture from the power of empire that has shaped Christian Scriptures -E. Schussler Fiorenza
24. "Womanist biblical scholars such as Renita Weems have already argued that there is inherent biases and limitations to the historical critical method. I would argue that the idea of objectivity is really “White objectivity.”" Angela Parker
26. When people look into X's face, they see etched the glory of their own possibilities, and their hearts whisper "Thank you and Thank God!"
Howard Thurman (25 was a retweet of a quote from Teresa of Avila)
Howard Thurman (25 was a retweet of a quote from Teresa of Avila)
27. the church experiences its existence as a gift.
Serene Jones
Serene Jones
28. from the Constructive Theology Workgroup, ed. by Stephen Ray and Laurel Schneider https://www.wjkbooks.com/Products/0664261884/awake-to-the-moment.aspx
29. Cornel West, Prophesy Deliverance
30. Monica Coleman, Making a Way out of No Way
31. the afterword of Delores Williams' Sisters in the Wilderness
32. @ReverendWarnock's The Divided Mind of the Black Church (he's also a Senate candidate for Georgia)
33. Barbara Brown Taylor An Altar in the World
34. the mystical experiences of [19th cent Black women] didn't cause them to resign themselves to seclusion, rather it motivate, inspired, & empowered them to bring about a more just vision of their communities -paraphrase from Joy Bostic
(fun fact: Joy Bostic's work is THE most influential work on my own. Grateful for her methodology and her witness)