“How had I not heard these stories and met these people, living 30 years right next to them?” asks Hanan Schlesinger. “How could it be?”
Interview
“Howard Baskerville believed there was no separation of religion and politics,” says Reza Aslan, “that democracy was a divine gift.”
Evolving Faith’s Sarah Bessey and Jeff Chu believe that a person’s deconstruction can’t just be for them.
“Hip-hop is layered prophetically, because you’re tying the past to the present.”
“We decided that we would be the last committee in the Episcopal Church to deal with this issue.”
“God’s social location is nowhere near women or Black people. I had to start looking for an image of the Divine that can speak to that.”
“I have the sense that Mechthild of Magdeburg’s whole life was lived in pursuit of her divine beloved.”
“My mama was womanist. My grandma is womanist. Just because they don’t have the language or the identifier doesn’t make them less womanist.”
“Looking east can free us a bit from our anxiety or ecclesiastical culture wars or general air of being panicked and overstretched.”
“We turn to Thurman, Bonhoeffer, Day, Heschel, and Niebuhr because they never let us forget the important questions.”
“Dolly Parton says she is singing for everybody. I am trying to translate for everybody.”
“The most magical part of thru-hiking is the community that we share.”
“If the gospel isn’t good news to the women in the passage, is it still good news?”
“People from every religious tradition want to be of service to God’s creation in a genuine way.”
“We began to paint frescoes on the ruins of abandoned churches. We did not ask anyone’s permission.”
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