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
Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has passed for Christianity they still need to believe and yet still be able to think of themselves as Christians. Stanley Hauerwas christianchristianitydetermine 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
The mentally ill may have shattered lives, but how that is different than the way sin distorts our ability to comprehend who we are as God's creatures is not clear. Stanley Hauerwas abilityclearcomprehend Change image and 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
I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill. Stanley Hauerwas focuskilllife 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 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
