...a
group of experts, those who individually design the best solutions, is
NOT the best group to attack the problem. Why? Because they tend to all
have the best point of view—not a very good one, but the best one.
Better is a group of people who have some experience but have very
different points of view on the problem, some of them not the best.
Those sub-optimal points of view carry information that is not in the
best view.
From The Healer Messiah, chapter 8.
Taken as propositional belief systems, monotheism, polytheism and atheism (there is one God, there are three million Gods, there is no God) are utterly incompatible. But seen as languages, as well-developed traditions, they all have much to say about the human condition, and we can profit by their being at the communion table.
--from The Healer Messiah chapter 8.
It means that the Messiah is loose in the world, this world. It means the gospel isn’t just about the past and the hereafter. There is a breathing Messiah, now.
--from The Healer Messiah chapter 4.
Whether using violence or ignition, to have a reasonable chance you have to attack the system before you get to Birkenau.
--from The Healer Messiah, chapter 10.
A
person who speaks “Catholic” may have difficulty understanding a person
speaking “Southern Baptist”. They frame the world differently even
though they may both use English, and the same scriptures, and even many
of the same terms...
--from The Healer Messiah, chapter 1.
This book is about how to live well with people who deny our core beliefs, or whose actions we consider immoral, or who have traumatized us. Such people may be our spouses or kin, or international enemies.
--from The Healer Messiah, Introduction
