All Saints’ Park Slope

"The steward always understood they weren't his resources. He just changed his mind about what he wanted to do with them." 

"Is it possible that the lost ones in this story are actually the ones who are the most righteous? Or, rather, the most self-righteous?"

“What will it take for you and for me to more deeply surrender to the work God is doing in us? What small adjustments, or big adjustments, are calling out to us, to live more in the path of love, commitment, and transformation God is leading each one of us on?”

“And there is profound freedom in living a life this way, a life that opens us up out of ourselves and toward someone else.” 

"Jesus makes it clear that healing is for all people, at all times, in all places."

"A religion of peace without the sword is a religion of the privileged alone."

"What we learn is that, more than anything, [right religion] is about a disposition of the heart that comes directly out of what our lives look like when we are not 'doing' religion." 

"Why would this rich person make such a poor decision? How does this decision cause him not to be rich toward God? Yes, he's rich, but what does he do with his riches?"

"But you see, none of this activity that shapes so much of our lives is anywhere to be found in the Bible. Instead, Jesus tells us to embrace this day; to turn to god as the creator of all things, and to ask for something so simple: 'give us this day our daily bread'." 

"Jesus knows that Martha is a good person. Jesus just wants her to understand that herself. Jesus wants Martha to give herself the gift of sitting at his feet from time to time, when he happens to arrive at her house."