If you are invited to take any role in a religious organization, first make sure you know what you want, how much agency you have to achieve it, and where you set your limits. If you do not, if ‘whatever God wills’ is sufficient for you, those with the real power will, in God’s name, exploit you for all your worth and spit out the pips
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Иначе мы бы читали эту новелу в святоотеческом учении, а не в "Декамероне" Боккаччо.
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Christ did indeed say of the church that “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it”. But that is no promise to ensure that the Church will at all time fulfil its task of being a light to the world, nor should we imply too quickly that what He sees as church today is necessarily co-terminous with the institution(s) that call themselves Church.
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- декамероновский еврей изящно и парадоксально предсказал Реформацию и русскую Революцию :-)).
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