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Finding true silence requires more than quieting our surroundings. It also means quieting our souls. This is the real dilemma of living in a wordy world.

— Skye Jethani The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009)

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By yielding its imagination to the forms around it, has the church, like ancient Israel, lost the ability to be an alternative people of God?

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