The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible. Stanley Hauerwas accountbillcall share on social
The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor. Stanley Hauerwas charitydisciplineexercise share on social
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church. Stanley Hauerwas catholicchurchcongregationalist Change image and share on social
Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is not a series of slogans that sum up our beliefs. Stanley Hauerwas beliefchristianityideal Change image and share on social
I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism. Stanley Hauerwas americanhumanitarianimperialism Change image and share on social
The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated. Stanley Hauerwas churchgospelheart Change image and share on social
Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen. Stanley Hauerwas attemptcitizencivil Change image and share on social
I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my early teens. Stanley Hauerwas beginearlysave Change image and share on social
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods. Stanley Hauerwas ageassumptioncall share on social
I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished. Stanley Hauerwas abolishabolitionchrist Change image and share on social
