"It Gets the Corners"

SOURCE: https://twitter.com/RevKPB/status/1428455682865602562?s=20

KEYWORD: baptism, water, sprinkler, hospitality, evangelism

In a tweet by Katrina Pekich-Bundy, a pastor in the PCUSA, she describes an old sprinkler system that was used to ensure that the "corners" of the lawn are covered.  

She compares this to loving people on the edges and the image of baptism.  

Decline in Courage, the First Symptom of the End

SOURCE: Quoted in "A Catholic Call to Courage" by Jeremy Kee.

https://www.crisismagazine.com/2019/a-catholic-call-to-courage

KEYWORD:  courage, virtue, distinct, ethics, morality, values

Quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn to the graduating class of Harvard in 1978:

"A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today… Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society. There are many courageous individuals, but they have no determining influence on public life… Political and intellectual functionaries exhibit this depression, passivity, and perplexity in their actions and in their statements, and even more so in their self-serving rationales as to how realistic, reasonable, and intellectually and even morally justified it is to base state policies on weakness and cowardice… Must one point out that from ancient times a decline in courage has been considered the first symptom of the end?"

New Life in Christ and the Beast

SOURCE:  

https://twitter.com/KatieRedfern3/status/1422926155917705216?s=20

KEYWORDS:

transformation, conversion, new life, renewal, revival, change

SCRIPTURE:

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!" (1 Corinthians 5:17)

One of the animators, Glen Keane, for Beauty and the Beast saw the transformation of the beast into a human being as symbolic of the spiritual transformation into new creations by Christ.  In fact, he kept the verse, 1 Corinthians 5:17, in front of him the entire time as he animated the scene.