Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.Harvey Cox
Not to decide is to decide.
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The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
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There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.
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What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.
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