Certainly the institutional church is ill. It's hemorrhaging young people at an astronomical rate.
Shane ClaiborneI think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
Shane ClaiborneThe Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.
Shane ClaiborneDavid, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible thingsโ - โthey were murderers. The Bible would be a lot shorter without grace.
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