“From now on all generations will call me blessed — I’m the one that’s cool.”
“The Amish man’s name was Umry, or at least that’s what we called him. At some point in his life he had developed an affinity for the Browns.”
“Thank you for affirming my preconceived notions on that subject.” (Also.)
“I think we should all fight hard for what we believe in, but I’d like to put in a request for some general slack-cutting.”
“Theodicy has always been the root problem of Christian theology, orthodox or heterodox. There’s no getting around that.”
“We probably won’t be able to change the national discourse on taxes, infrastructure, education, government investment, technology policy, transportation, welfare, or our future prospects as a country until we can effectively convince the country of the monumental wrongness of this one core point.”
“Many Americans — in particular those who are white and middle-aged or older — remember growing up in a far more homogeneous place than the present. The sense of mourning for — and the desire to restore — that world is powerful, as is the fear of what is to come in the new, far more diverse America.” (via AZspot)
“I have it on very good authority that the Heritage Foundation wants you to die.”
“In the first two years after ‘Obamacare’ was signed, Medicare reforms in the law saved seniors a total of $3.4 billion in prescription drug costs by bridging a coverage gap, according to official figures.”
“I think of Mr. Knight and how he helped so many kids navigate through high school and the horror that is being a teenager.”
“A prominent thread running through the narratives of my gay brothers and sisters is a church that no longer values them.”
“Harris, that wasn’t a born again experience you had way back when, it was your soul withering away to nothing shortly after you took your conscience around behind the barn and shot it.”
John Shore’s petition for Christians affirming the goodness of same-sex relationships now has more than 2,000 signatures.
(Happy 27th birthday to Lily Allen.)
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