Diana Butler Bass quotes:

With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.

The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.

Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.

Spiritual awakening is not ultimately the work of invisible cultural forces. Instead, it is the work of learning to see differently, of prayer, and of conversion. It is something people do.

Although churches seem the most natural space to perform spiritual awakening, the disconcerting reality is that many people in Western society see churches more as museums of religion than sacred stages that dramatize the movement of God's spirit.

Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.

Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?