Quotes about Context

Just because a pastor does well in one situation does not guarantee he or she will do well in another.

It does appear, then, that what you find in the landscape of the Old Testament when you 'get there' very much depends on whom you take with you and through whose eyes you view it.

It is vitally important that we pay attention to the narrative framework in which the Old Testament laws are set.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can.

In all fairness to Secretary [Hillary] Clinton I want you to be very happy. It's very important to me.

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from the Lord.

The danger is that we can begin to read the Bible through the eyes of America rather than read America through the eyes of the Bible. We just want Jesus to be a good American.

On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings are appropriate today.

Where we stand depends on where we sit.

Lectio divina provides us with a discipline, developed and handed down by our ancestors, for recovering the context, restoring the intricate web of relationships to which the Scriptures give witness but that are so easily lost or obscured in the act of writing.