" Christendom is dead and our little combo has been hired to play at the funeral."

"Christendom is telling us that God is dead, but I'm thinking Christendom is dead and our little combo has been hired to play at the funeral." -Bono, p.120 in "U2 by U2"

"Therefore, the future of the Reformation belongs not to the state church -- that is, to the union between throne and altar -- but to the left wing of the Reformation, which lived out a radical discipleship." -Moltmann


"Culture has an ecology and that ecology determines our mental well-being...At the rate we are losing clarity of mind, there will be no more big ideas. One morning we could wake up to a never-ending schizo dream...A new medium always attacks etablished media. 'It never ceases to oppress older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them,' wrote McLuhan."

-Adbusters


"When the old wineskin is dying, the new wineskin is created by people who are not afraid to be vulnerable. " -Graham Cooke

"When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure" -Rudolph Baro, ecologist

"The restoration of the church will surely come only from a new type of monasticism which has nothing in common with the old but a complete lack of compromise in a life lived in accordance with the Sermon on the Mount in the discipleship of Christ. I think it is time to gather people together to do this." — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The real God is the one who can invert life from terror to boldness, from sorrow to joy.... The transformative power of God jeopardizes all of our gestures of equilibrium and our idolatrous images of God as the great stabilizer of the status quo. - Walter Brueggemann

"Get on my kness and pray...we won't get fooled again...(because) Meet the new boss; same as the old boss." -The Who



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