“Everyone has the will to win. Not everyone has the will to prepare.” - Bobby Knight

This quote by Otis Moss Jr, a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr,

“Let it be forever remembered that all racism and hate lead to genocide, (Professor George Kelsey taught us this decades ago), past, present and future. In a society of hate no one is safe. The haters and the hated are in constant danger.

However, Love, Justice, Liberation, Transformation and Reconciliation must be our abiding commitment. This commitment must be kept alive and active from generation to generation.

Our prayer must forever remain: Dear God, make me too brave to hate and too courageous to be unkind.”

Finished reading: Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson 📚

This was another fun read in the Cosmere! I am excited to read the next in the series. It’s a welcome change of pace from the non-fiction that I am constantly reading.

Currently reading: Dominion by Tom Holland 📚

I just finished the preface. Let me tell you, I think this book is going to be epic. I’ve heard a number of interviews with Holland (a self avowed atheist) and the premise of the text, that Christianity is more disruptive on the stage of world history than we realize is profound.

Finished reading: Slow Theology by A. J. Swoboda and Nijay Gupta📚

This is one of the best books I’ve read in a long time. I highly recommend it!

Currently reading: Slow Theology by A. J. Swoboda 📚

This book! Whew.

“Few things shape us more than the questions we spend our life pondering… the deepest questions do not necessarily deserve quick answers. In fact, the quick answer very well may cheapen the sacredness of a holy question.”

Currently reading: Slow Theology by A. J. Swoboda 📚

This might be the single most challenging book I’ve read in the last few years. The good kind of conviction on every page.

Currently reading: Slow Theology by A. J. Swoboda and Nijay Gupta 📚

I just read this: “To pursue Jesus is to pursue truth.”

As I ponder that it strikes me again that that to point people to truth is simply pointing the toward Jesus. Which means if we seek to do that, we must do our best to mirror Jesus to the world.

Oh, how I woefully fall short. May God have mercy.

I just grabbed my guy, Justin Belt’s new book, Purpose in the Pause. I am excited to read it conjunction with _Slow Theology _by Swoboada and Gupta. 📚

Finished reading: The Virtue of Dialogue by C. CHRISTOPHER. SMITH 📚

A fantastic short read on the importance and centrality of conversation in the church.

I am just beginning: Slow Theology by A. J. Swoboda and Nijay Gupta 📚

Oh boy, this book is going to be so good and so very challenging. I am excited!

The kingdom of God is not in the wisdom of the world, nor in eloquence, but in the faith of the cross and in the virtue of dialogue. — St. Cyprian

I bumped into this quote in C Christopher Smith’s, The Virtue of Dialogue. It really resonates with me and I think it is quite timely.

Oh, this is excellent from @bjhess:

[A Bit Naive](https://bjhess.com/posts/a-bit-naive)

What I wouldn’t give right now to be a bit more naive.

What I wouldn’t give for all of us to be a bit more naive.

A bit less social media.

A bit less 24-hour news.

Your Yes to God demands your No to all injustice, to all evil, to all lies, to all oppression and violation of the weak and the poor, to all godlessness and mocking of the holy. Your Yes to God demands a brave No to everything that will ever hinder you from serving God alone, whether it be your profession, your property, your house, your honor before the world. Faith means decision.

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Gift of Faith, 1938

Diving into this text seems appropriate at this point in calendar…

Currently reading: America’s God by Mark A. Noll 📚