A Common Place Blog

'The historian Herbert Butterfield is supposed to have said that if we take the animosity present in an average church choir and give th...

'Radically and basically all sin is simply ingratitude.' Karl Barth in Gilbert Meilaender, Thy Will Be Done, p.56

'...a "crisis" in sexual ethics is never simply that; it is a crisis in our understanding of what it means to be a person. Are...

'Unconsciously, everyone under the age of ten knows everything. Under-ten can come into a room and sense at once everything felt, kept s...

'Humility is the proper ordering of worth in life.' Marsh Moyle, Rumours of a Better Country , p.221.

'Personhood develops in relationships. In turning to face each other, we see ourselves through new eyes, learning about our assumptions,...

'As important as beautifully formulated theological propositions are to the Christian faith, they are no substitute for learning to live...

'An object is free of idolatry when we associate with it only those attributes it actually has, no more and no less.' Marsh Moyle, R...

'God is simultaneously three and one. We reflect God's image in being in communion with each other while simultaneously being unique...

'...Christian freedom...is the essential freedom of human beings to develop themselves as human creatures.' Hans Rookmaaker in Marsh...