The church is always at its worst when it’s running government. It’s at its next worst when it’s collaborating with government—especially collaborating in an uncritical ways as it did with the [aboriginal] residential schools. It’s at its best and most powerful when it’s resisting government. Its role is to be interrogative in a modern way.
Daily Manna
There is no one to send, not a clean hand nor a pure heart on the face of the earth, nor in the earth, but only us. . . . — Annie Dillard