The inflections of community are important because they get at the very meanings of marriage. Marriage is a gift God gives the church. He does not simply give it to the married people of the church, but to the whole church, just as marriage is designed not only for the benefit of the married couple. It is designed to tell a story to the entire church, a story about God’s own love and fidelity to us
There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have growth spurts or lose weight… - Lauren F. Winner
There are a few people out there with whom you fit just so, and, amazingly, you keep fitting just so even after you have growth spurts or lose weight…
- Lauren F. Winner
Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along. - Lauren F. Winner
Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.
God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite… - Lauren F. Winner
God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite…
The inflections of community are important because they get at the very meanings of marriage. Marriage is a gift God gives the church. He does not si… - Lauren F. Winner
The inflections of community are important because they get at the very meanings of marriage. Marriage is a gift God gives the church. He does not si…
Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet I continue to live in a wo… - Lauren F. Winner
Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet I continue to live in a wo…
Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight… - Lauren F. Winner
Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight…
I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze. - Lauren F. Winner
I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.
The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right. - Lauren F. Winner
The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.
The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an especially present way… - Lauren F. Winner
The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an especially present way…
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