We are well-educated people who have been schooled in a way of knowing that treats the world as an object to be dissected and manipulated, a way of knowing that gives us power over the world…[We] have used [our] knowledge to rearrange the world to satisfy [our] drive for power, distorting and deranging life rather than loving it for the gift it is. – Parker Palmer
Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category
The Time is Now for the Great Thinkers
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Abigail Adams
Wonderful quote from Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States.
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
–Abigail Adams
Can Our Kind of Church Save Our Kind of World?
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
One of the privileges of being a Baptist in Delaware is the opportunity to work with Dr. David Jackson. He is a friend, mentor and colleague and Missionary for Church Multiplication for the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware.
In a post this morning, he tells of a challenge he received at a conference he was at this week. The challenge is one we need to hear.
