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...
thinking self looks
I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.
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.
real believe i-believe
I believe that God is very real.
power-of-love
I experience God as the power of love.
godly views decision
The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view and act on death as a dignified moral and godly choice for those suffering with terminal illnesses.
christian numbers looks
When I look back at the Christian faith, I see that we have had to retranslate, almost reinvent ourselves a number of times.
hate found humans
Human wholeness can never be found in the denigration of another
gay past years
The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.
jesus reality apologetic
Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.
journey perspective way
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
children century 21st-century
I am a child of the 21st century.
easter religion three
At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.
praying enough easy
It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.
people want traditional-family
I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.