QUOTES FROM A RECENT CONFERENCE

JRR Tolkein writes about moving from catastrophe through dyscatastrophe to encatastrophe (shades of OT scholar Walter Brueggemann’s notion of orientation, disorientation, reorientation).

A shallow mind is a sin against God (Chaim Potok, In the Beginning)

Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living (Jaroslav {Pelikan)

Re the church: ‘You can’t raise live chickens under dead hens’ (Clarence Jordan)

‘The place God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet’ (Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking)