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Motherhood has powerfully reinforced for me the significance of the fact that when God was most vulnerable – in the womb, nursing at the breast, as a child, at death – God was wholly entrusted to the care of women. I find that frighteningly profound. — Rachel Held Evans We are born of love. Love […]
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. — A. A. Milne Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds. —Norman Vincent Peale When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed. ― Matshona Dhliwayo If […]
I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart. ― Rumi This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, To seek the truth in love, And to help one another. — James Vila Blake Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It […]
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. —Aeschylus The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is, and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed […]
Allegories of slavery & freedom in sacred texts: liberating or problematic? At the end of his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. alludes to the apostle Paul’s words in Galatians 3:28: “There is no longer Jew or […]
