John Shelby
John Shelby
John T. Shelbyis a former center fielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1981 to 1991. His nickname was "T-Bone" for his slight frame. He currently is a coach in the Colorado Rockies minor league system...
religion atheism divinity
The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
yesterday giving people
If you begin to give people hope that there is a brighter future, there is a new tomorrow, then the people who were yesterday's terrorists become tomorrow's elected officials and they're part of the system.
enemy
I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.
life-is-good evil life-is
Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.
golf thinking play
I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of heaven to play golf.
punishment forever religion
The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its reliance on guilt as a motivator of behavior.
determination live-life
Live life to it's fullest, love wastefully, and be all we can be.
honesty thinking giving
If you're going to live in a community, you have to refrain from killing one another and stealing from one another. You must have honor and honesty in your dealings with one another. But I think the deeper thing that we need to do is to become so fully human that we don't grasp at life; we give life away. We give love away. We give being away. That is the ultimate work of religion.
tasks tradition christianity
As for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of our faith or tradition in a more human direction. That's the thing I spend my time doing.
miserable mets wretched
I've never met anybody who was helped by being told how wretched,miserable and sinful they are.
power-of-love
I experience God as the power of life, the power of love and the ground of being. I don't say that's what God is; I say that's my experience of God.
husband children book
Pat Robertson said the feminist movement was just a bunch of lesbians who wanted to leave their husbands and kill their children. I quoted him in my book. It's a fantastic statement.
kings people church
Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of organized religion, you will discover that it endorsed slavery and quoted the Bible to approve it; the Pope even owned slaves.
north-carolina slavery segregation
I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.