The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.
Frederick BuechnerAll 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is of another sort altogether.
Frederick BuechnerDespair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
Frederick BuechnerPreaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.
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