Well-Said Quotables
"…We need Christian people to work as healers: as healing judges and prison staff, as healing teachers and administrators, as healing shopkeepers and bankers, as healing musicians and artists, as healing writers and scientists, as healing diplomats and politicians. We need people who will hold on to Christ firmly with one hand and reach out the other, with wit and skill and cheerfulness, with compassion and sorrow and tenderness, to the places where our world is in pain. We need people who will use all their god-given skills, as Paul used his, to anaylse where things have gone wrong, to come to the place of pain, and to hold over the wound the only medicine which will reallly heal, which is the love of Christ made incarnate once more, your smile and mine, your tears and mine, your patient analysis and mine, your frustration and mine, your joy and mine…"
N. T. Wright
For All God’s Worth
Full of Beans
I recently learned I have high cholesterol, which comes as a shock to my youngest-child-always-surprised-at-aging self. In response to the news, I’ve stepped up my walking program. I even walk the treadmill at the YMCA when the temperature dips down-something … more »