Quote of the Day

"A person will worship something, have no doubt about that.... That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: Almost Christian: What the faith of our teenagers is telling the American church, by Kenda Creasy Dean, 2010, Oxford University Press.

Shalom

"Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann, who is widely influential among mainline Protestants, describes shalom as "the central vision" of the Bible in which "all of creation is one, every creature in community with every other, living in harmony and security toward the joy and well-being of every other creature.""
Source: Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the neighborhood church is transforming the faith, Diana Bulter Bass (2006) Harper One, p. 110