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    Randy S. Woodley
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    Shalom is meant to be both personal (emphasizing our relationships with others) and structural (replacing systems where shalom has been broken or which produce broken shalom, such as war-or greed-driv...

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    Alan Roxburgh
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    The cathedral lay at the center of a society. Its structure told the story of the Christian narrative and the human journey. In its shadow people were formed inside a story about how life was best liv...

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    Meredith G. Kline
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    The couple in the garden was to multiply, so providing the citizens of the city. Their cultivation of earth's resources as they extended their control over their territorial environment through th...

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    Robert Mulholland Jr.
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    We are being shaped into either the wholeness of the image of Christ or a horrible destructive caricature of that image—destructive not only to ourselves but also to others, for we inflict our brokenn...

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    Ian Bogost
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    Genesis 2:15-17, Exodus 20:1-17 , Job 1:6-12, Matthew 7:13-14, 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, Psalm 119:105
    Games aren’t appealing because they are fun, but because they are limited. Because they erect boundaries. Because we must accept their structures in order to play them.

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    Robert J. Schreiter
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    Reconciliation is an intensely sought but elusive goal. Part of the difficulty is the sheer enormity of the task, so great that it seems well-nigh unachievable. For it is not only a matter of healing ...

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    Dictionary of Biblical Imagery
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    Acts 8:1-4, Acts 9:1-19, Romans 15:19-20, Acts 17:16-17, Acts 17:1-4
    The world that we enter in the book of Acts is the most modern in all the Bible by virtue of its urban identity. Most of the action occurs in the famous cities of the Greco-Roman world, not in the loc...

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    Bob Burns, Tasha D. Chapman, and Donald Guthrie
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    Every ministry context-whether in the family, a church, or another organization-has a complicated structure of relationships. The capacity to act and to influence others is largely a result of the his...

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    Emily Dickinson
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    The Props assist the House Until the House is built And then the Props withdraw And adequate, erect, The House support itself And cease to recollect The Auger and the Carpenter— Just such a retrospect...

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    N. T. Wright and Michael Bird
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    Stories, after all, are one of the most basic modes of human life and are a characteristic expression of worldview. Human life is constituted by a series of stories, implicit and explicit, that makes ...

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    Diane Ackerman
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    Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations….Imagine the brain, that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray par...

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    Martin Heidegger
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    The essence of building is letting dwell.

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    Mortimer Adler
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    Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the r...

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    Clyde Reid
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    We structure our churches and maintain them so as to shield us from God and to protect us from genuine religious experience…The adult members of churches today rarely raise serious religious questions...

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    William T. Cavanaugh
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    Things are not ends in themselves; they are means to greater attachment to others. . . . But to have a good relationship with others, it is necessary to have a proper relationship with things.

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Habits are the thought and emotional patterns engraved on our minds. These internal habit patterns play just as forceful a role as external influences on our actions – in fact, perhaps more so.

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    Keith Black
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    If you look at the anatomy, the structure, the function, there's nothing in the universe that's more beautiful, that's more complex, than the human brain.

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    John Ruskin
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    In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf...

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    Daniel G. Amen
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    Memory is the fabric of our souls. It enables us to integrate and make sense of the experiences of our bodies, minds, and spirits. It makes us who we are and allows us to keep our loved ones close, ev...

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    Michael Pollan
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    The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

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    William Feindel
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    Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an object of research,...

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    Billy Graham
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    Psalm 147:3, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, Psalm 34:18, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
    People by nature build, tear down, and rebuild. We build our hopes, get disappointed, and then search for renewed hope.

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Happy will that house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

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    Barbara Kingsolver
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    It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

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    Paul Bloom
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    We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good l...

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    Leonardo de Chirico
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    [There] are social idols that capture the life of the city…overarching sinful narratives on which people rely. We have to exegete them. We have to spot them out. We have to capture their core values, ...

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    Daniel Hill
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    Culture shapes the way we order our life, interpret our experiences, and evaluate the behavior of other people.

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    R. J. A. Berry
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    An intimate acquaintance with some of the structural features of the human brain is thus seen to be not only necessary to the physician, but also to the psychologist, the educationalist, and the socia...

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    Winston S. Churchill
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    We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

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    Mark Regnerus and Jeremy Uecker
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    Relationships are a large playing field upon which other life contests and struggles get worked out.
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