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William Stringfellow Quote

Published by Rick Meigs on October 17th, 2007 in Quotes.

I’m sitting here at the Missional Order gathering listening to Andrew Jones interview Pete Askew of the Northumbria Community which reminded me of this quote Pete shared yesterday that many of us feel captures a sense of what we’d like to see as a community.

Dynamic and erratic, spontaneous and radical, audacious and immature, committed if not altogether coherent. Ecumenically open and often experimental, visible here and there, now and then but unsettled institutionally. Almost monastic in nature but most of all enacting a fearful hope for society. —William Stringfellow

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3 Responses to “William Stringfellow Quote”

  1. Jeff Greathouse
    October 18th, 2007 at 7:32 am

    Hope the gathering goes well for you and there will be a word that touches you.

  2. Rick Meigs
    October 18th, 2007 at 8:54 am

    Thanks Jeff. There has been.

  3. Elaine
    March 13th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    Hi. I’m researching the Northumbria Community, and I find this quotation interesting. In what way does it capture what you’d like to see as a community?

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