{"author":"Megan McKenna","author_id":"Megan+McKenna","total_quotes":34,"quotes":[{"text":"All the accounts of the burial of Jesus are somber, laced through with the silence of grief, the shock that violence does to one's soul, even experienced vicariously in the body of another who is loved. They are written as though they are dirges, laments hidden in the silences and spaces between the words.","author":"Megan McKenna","tags":["depravity","grief","violence"],"id":4620,"author_id":"Megan+McKenna"},{"text":"The farther you get from the actual historical person of Jesus and His time, the more the church knows about Jesus and understand more deeply the truth of the Scriptures. We know more of the truth of Jesus the Risen Lord and His Word because we have been the recipients of more than 2000 years of faith, of life lived in the power of the Spirit and the Word in our midst. The power of of the presence of the Risen Lord is not static, but dynamic, and growing ever stronger as the kingdom of the earth comes more into its fullness in time and place. It is an awesome thought that calls us to responsibility and gratefulness for having been given the gift from those who have gone before us in faith. It is our privilege and inheritance, which we must be sure to pass on to those who come after us, in forms that are ever richer, more expressive and inclusive of others.","author":"Megan McKenna","tags":["discipleship","revelation"],"id":31013,"author_id":"Megan+McKenna"},{"text":"Throughout history the cross stands as a symbol of protest and revolt; protest against all claims, whether by religious or political power, to absolute unquestioning control over human minds and bodies; revolt against all systems and ideologies, all regimes and institutions, which continue to push individuals and groups beyond the pale, outside the gate.","author":"Megan McKenna","tags":["church-and-state","discipleship"],"id":43811,"author_id":"Megan+McKenna"},{"text":"The cross is a crisis point for all societies which seek to produce me in and women of quiescence, men and women who are trained to give unquestioning, uncritical obedience to worldly powers and not to Christ.","author":"Megan McKenna","tags":["church-and-state","discipleship"],"id":44881,"author_id":"Megan+McKenna"},{"text":"It takes practice to stand with others facing pain of death, and it helps if you don't have to do it all alone. We should practice on the small stuff so that we will be better able to stand together for what we believe and for what we love, who may someday need our support.","author":"Megan McKenna","tags":["discipleship","self-sacrifice"],"id":87880,"author_id":"Megan+McKenna"},{"text":"The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.","author":"Megan McKenna","tags":["compassion","discipleship","ministry"],"id":99686,"author_id":"Megan+McKenna"},{"text":"Someone once said that Stephen Austin didn't like preachers at all. He swore that 'one preacher could stir up more trouble than a dozen horse thieves.' Matthew's Gospel reminds us that it is the role of a disciple of Jesus to stir up trouble by playing an active, resistant role in the struggle of good and evil, by resisting the ways of the world and its power bases – economic, religious, nationalistic, politic, military – which are most often in direct opposition to the ways of the Kingdom of God and the way of discipleship.","author":"Megan McKenna","tags":["discipleship","faith-and-culture"],"id":110594,"author_id":"Megan+McKenna"},{"text":"It is unbelievable the amount of hate the human body can sustain before it begins to break.","author":"Megan McKenna","tags":["bitterness","hate"],"id":121670,"author_id":"Megan+McKenna"},{"text":"Faith is an action. He (one criminal on the cross) puts himself one step lower than where he was, sharing Jesus' place of poverty, insecurity, and the focus of rage. Remember me. And he will be remembered, because of his association with the Crucified One.","author":"Megan McKenna","tags":["discipleship","suffering"],"id":127217,"author_id":"Megan+McKenna"},{"text":"Any serious reading of the Bible means personal involvement in it, not symbol mental agreement with abstract propositions. And involvement is dangerous, because it leaves one open to unforeseen conclusions.","author":"Megan McKenna","tags":["bible","discipleship","scripture"],"id":143920,"author_id":"Megan+McKenna"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}