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  • From my community of exiles...

    -I have come to realize that aiming for community is a bit like aiming for happiness. It’s not a goal in itself. We find happiness as an incidental by-product of pursuing love, justice, hospitality, and generosity. …

  • We need to earn the right to be reheard. Is it too simplistic to say that we earn that right through our authentic lifestyles? In a culture yearning for authenticity—the real—the pressure is on us in the Christi…

  • real

    I would rather be with someone who is real than someone who is good. – Philip YanceyTrying to be authentic in a world of fakery is, for many, harder than avoiding pornography, drugs, or abortion. Why is the church…

  • If we take seriously the call to follow Jesus into exile, we will find ourselves developing closer proximity with our neighborhood. It’s simply unavoidable. It will involve divesting ourselves of much of the baggage …

  • more quotes from exiles

    Read the dangerous stories in the Gospels, and then tell me that Jesus wants you to be so busy with church activities. Read those radical stories of the one who was accused by religious people of being a drunkard …

  • This is not a call to join a monastery or to escape to a kibbutz. We have to work and shop and live in the empire. Instead, it addresses our imagination, shaping and summoning us to another way, the way of Jesus, l…

  • Quotes

    There is such an enormous gap between our words and deeds! Everyone talks about freedom, democracy, justice, human rights, and peace; but at the same time, everyone, more or less, consciously or unconsciously, se…

  • Exiles by Michael Frost

    I'm going to start randomly posting quotes from this book. I really liked parts of it. So here's a little taste:“This book is for the many people who wish to be faithful followers of the radical Jesus but no longer fi…

  • Only one direction to go from here.

    I wrote the last blog a while back and didn't think it was worth posting at the time. Then I posted it one night while I couldn't sleep. It gets picked as a featured blog, and then all hell breaks loose. It's all qui…

  • I want to be...

    "The Christian leader who is able to be a critical contemplative will be a revolutionary in the most real sense. Because by testing all he sees, hears and touches for its evangelical authenticity, he is able to chan…

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