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That it is precisely when we recognize our common humanity—when we recognize our own humanity in the face of the other—it is then that we also recognize the face of God.

Diana Butler Bass

That it is precisely when we recognize our common humanity—when we recognize our own humanity in the face of the other—it is then that we also recognize the face of God.

Unlike in our society, where we hide it, death surrounded medieval people. They had few hospitals, and so churches, poorhouses, and homes handled the dying and dead. Death was not a distant prospect a...

Diana Butler Bass

Unlike in our society, where we hide it, death surrounded medieval people. They had few hospitals, and so churches, poorhouses, and homes handled the dying and dead. Death was not a distant prospect a...

About Author
Diana Butler Bass (born 1959) is an American historian of Christianity and an advocate for progressive Christianity. She is the author of eleven books.
Bass earned a PhD in religious studies from Duke University in 1991 with an emphasis on American ecclesiastical history, studying under George Marsden. From 1995 to 2000, she wrote a weekly column on religion and culture for the New York Times syndicate that appeared in more than seventy newspapers nationwide. She has blogged for the Sojourners God's Politics blog, On Faith at The Washington Post, Beliefnet, and The Huffington Post. She authored a Substack newsletter, The Cottage.
Bass is associated with Sojourners and is a member of the Episcopal Church.

I’m waiting now, but I will be ready. We are mutual participants, you and I, intertwined.

Diana Butler Bass

I’m waiting now, but I will be ready. We are mutual participants, you and I, intertwined.

While contemporary Christians tend to equate morality with sexual ethics, our ancestors defined morality as welcoming the stranger. Unlike almost every other contested idea in early Christianity, incl...

Diana Butler Bass

While contemporary Christians tend to equate morality with sexual ethics, our ancestors defined morality as welcoming the stranger. Unlike almost every other contested idea in early Christianity, incl...

Chesed

Diana Butler Bass

Chesed

Theologians pitted devotion and morality against belief, defining faith no longer as a way of life but rather as intellectual assent to certain creeds or confessions; their books were filled with quar...

Diana Butler Bass

Theologians pitted devotion and morality against belief, defining faith no longer as a way of life but rather as intellectual assent to certain creeds or confessions; their books were filled with quar...

Hospitality is the practice that keeps the church from becoming a club, a members-only society.

Diana Butler Bass

Hospitality is the practice that keeps the church from becoming a club, a members-only society.

Where do you live?' is ultimately a sacred question.

Diana Butler Bass

Where do you live?' is ultimately a sacred question.

Tags: focus, life

There is no one experience of gratitude; rather, it is a complex and episodic thing, and one that is deeply personal.

Diana Butler Bass

There is no one experience of gratitude; rather, it is a complex and episodic thing, and one that is deeply personal.

The language of mysticism and spiritual experience cuts a wide swath through the world’s religious traditions, and it presents an alternative theology, that of connection and intimacy. In Christian tr...

Diana Butler Bass

The language of mysticism and spiritual experience cuts a wide swath through the world’s religious traditions, and it presents an alternative theology, that of connection and intimacy. In Christian tr...

Shalom bayit,

Diana Butler Bass

Shalom bayit,

All those statistics - the ones about decline - point toward massive theological discontent. People still believe in God. They just do not believe in the God proclaimed and worshipped by conventional...

Diana Butler Bass

All those statistics - the ones about decline - point toward massive theological discontent. People still believe in God. They just do not believe in the God proclaimed and worshipped by conventional...

Grace—gifts given without being earned and with no expectation of return—

Diana Butler Bass

Grace—gifts given without being earned and with no expectation of return—

Fear brings out the basest instincts, writes British political scientist Sue Goss, and narrows our sense of belonging to self-preservation.16

Diana Butler Bass

Fear brings out the basest instincts, writes British political scientist Sue Goss, and narrows our sense of belonging to self-preservation.16

When I get a little money I buy books, he confessed to a friend. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.13

Diana Butler Bass

When I get a little money I buy books, he confessed to a friend. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.13

What we need is here. —Wendell Berry

Diana Butler Bass

What we need is here. —Wendell Berry

Time. A new interdisciplinary community of scientists, environmentalists, health researchers, therapists, and artists is coalescing around an idea: neuroconservation. Embracing the notion that we trea...

Diana Butler Bass

Time. A new interdisciplinary community of scientists, environmentalists, health researchers, therapists, and artists is coalescing around an idea: neuroconservation. Embracing the notion that we trea...

While contemporary Christians tend to equate morality with sexual ethics, our ancestors defined morality as welcoming the stranger.

Diana Butler Bass

While contemporary Christians tend to equate morality with sexual ethics, our ancestors defined morality as welcoming the stranger.

Awe is the gateway to compassion. It is a deep awareness that we are creators, creators who work with the Creator, in an ongoing project of crafting a world. If we do not like the world or are afraid...

Diana Butler Bass

Awe is the gateway to compassion. It is a deep awareness that we are creators, creators who work with the Creator, in an ongoing project of crafting a world. If we do not like the world or are afraid...

At the same moment when massive global institutions seem to rule the world, there is an equally strong countermovement among regular people to claim personal agency in our own lives. We grow food in b...

Diana Butler Bass

At the same moment when massive global institutions seem to rule the world, there is an equally strong countermovement among regular people to claim personal agency in our own lives. We grow food in b...