Quotes about Communication

A story like the exodus story is what happens when, as I said previously, God lets his children tell the story—in ways they understand and that is packed with meaning for them.

A God who does not connect to the world around us is a God who cannot speak to us. Believing in a God who demands that we continue to adopt only biblically ancient ways of thinking of God, which are themselves rooted in their own cultural moment, is to diminish God's active presence here and now.

Moses is not receiving a new bit of information. Rather, God is leaving no doubt in Moses' mind who it is that is speaking with him. God is saying to him: "I am Yahweh, the 'I AM,' the God of the patriarchs. The one you have heard about is the one speaking with you now.

We are all culturally embedded creatures—we can never untangle ourselves from our here and now. We perceive God, think about God, and talk about God in ways that make sense to us by virtue of when and where we live.

“Why are you angry,” said the LORD to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?

Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?

Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,

When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.

And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?