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A shout out to Jonathan Dodson at theresurgence.com for posting this quote by Bono:

The idea that God, if there is a force of Logic and Love in the universe, that it would seek to explain itself is amazing enough. That it would seek to explain itself and describe itself by becoming a child born in straw poverty, in shit and straw . . . a child . . . I just thought: “Wow!” Just the poetry . . . Unknowable love, unknowable power, describes itself as the most vulnerable. There it was. I was sitting there, and it’s not that it hadn’t struck me before, but tears came streaming down my face, and I saw the genius of this, utter genius of picking a particular point in time and deciding to turn on this.

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Featured Friday Quote

The Featured Friday Quote is now just the Featured Quote. I don’t have the time to do a quote every Friday, and half the time I forget. So now, you’ll get a Featured Quote when I come across one that I think is worth sharing.

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Featured Friday Quote

For Friday, October 24, 2008:

She introduced me to so many things, pasteurized milk, sheets, monotheism…

Dwight Schrute, The Office

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For Friday, October 10th:

To undertake an incarnational approach to ministry is to be sent as Jesus was sent–to empty yourself of all that alienates you from a people and to become to a significant degree as they are.

Scott Bessenecker, The New Friars // Courtesy of Alan Hirsch

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For Friday, October 3:

A lot of people say, “It doesn’t matter what you believe, as long as you’re sincere.” They’re partly right: sincerity is a precious thing, and arguments about who has the correct beliefs have too often led to arrogance, ugly arguments, and even violence. But believing untrue things, however sincerely, can have its own unintended consequences.

Brian McLaren, The Secret Message of Jesus

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