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A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .
We live in a post-institutional age. Our danger is not to look to institutions to save us, but rather to look to ourselves to save us.
Disappearing Church
Mark Sayers
And if God’s good creation—of the world, of life as we know it, of our glorious and remarkable bodies, brains, and bloodstreams—really is good, and if God wants to reaffirm that goodness in a wonderful act of new creation at the last, then to see the death of the body and the escape of the soul as salvation is not simply slightly off course, in need of a few subtle alterations and modifications. It is totally and utterly wrong. It is colluding with death. It is conniving at death’s destruction of God’s good, image-bearing human creatures while consoling ourselves with the (essentially non-Christian and non-Jewish) thought that the really important bit of ourselves is saved from this wicked, nasty body and this sad, dark world of space, time, and matter!
Surprised by Hope
N. T. Wright
Jesus doesn’t use a superhuman advantage to win; he refuses the inhumanity we all participate in.
The Pursuing God
Joshua Ryan Butler
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