70 Quotes by Jamie Arpin-Ricci

Here is a COVID-19 Commandment:Great love has no one than this, to lay on one's couch without friends.

Here is a COVID-19 Commandment:Greater love has no one than this, to lay on one's couch without friends.

There is more hope in honest brokenness than in the pretense of false wholeness.

Deviant’ is the weapon of the normative to discredit and demonize the Other.

Agreeing to disagree’ isn’t license to hold hateful and condemning beliefs about me as though it doesn’t negatively impact our relationship.

When you’re accustomed to being considered ‘normal’, difference feels like a perversion.

One of the deadliest tools of powerful systems is narrow definitions of what is “normal” and the reduction of difference to deviance.

The mission of God’s people is not simply directed at saving people’s souls from a bad life-after-death into a good life-after-death, but it addresses and hopefully touches the injustice and violence around us – poverty, racism, sexism, economic exploitation, war, environmental destruction – where salvation, justice, and peace can merge.

The level of ‘acceptable’ dishonesty we Christians allow to avoid facing uncomfortable truths betrays our ideals as shallowly held.