“A fundamorphosis is the theological transformation that frees someone from fundamentalism.”
“Rather than, as Jesus taught, forgoing ritual for repentance and reconciliation, this movement seems to suggest ritual rather than repentance.”
“White Protestant faith has never been about survival, whereas black faith from the start has been.”
“Love overrides everything that’s supposedly not kosher.”
“I wonder, when I talk to Justin and when I read his book, why he’s not more pissed.”
“I have seen what has been done in the name of Christianity and, while I know that it is a distortion, every time I meet someone who identifies as a Christian, I become guarded and prepare to defend myself.”
“Why it’s like they were just making stuff up, scaring people for their own personal agenda – you know, instead of really speaking for God.”
“The wildly disproportionate interest that popular American Christianity has with the End Times not only makes us look stupid, it also makes us actually stupid, insofar as it corrupts our prudential judgment with emotional hysteria.”
“If the American bishops really want religious freedom, the last thing they should promote is a top-down demand to vote the way they say.”
“Pride is based in fear. Humility requires courage.”
“Fewer than 20 percent of the colonial citizens were active in churches. Change came after 1776, so that, in one common estimate, church participation jumped from 17 percent to 34 percent between 1776 and 1850.” (via John Fea)
“They’re also encouraging others to put up nativity scenes at their homes and businesses. And I think that’s great. That’s exactly where they belong.”
“How about the Daddy’s Girl shirt? The double meaning will not be lost on anyone, because really, aren’t Christian young women supposed to be Daddy’s girl until marriage, but also the ‘Daughter of the Most High,’ as the shirt proclaims?”
“This holiday, I would rather my kids have three presents and your kids have three presents than my kids have six presents and yours have none.”
“The next day, much of the school in the historic fishing village — girls, boys, a dog and at least one teacher — was pigtailed, and the bully absent.”
“A pool is a still, stagnant body of water; it does not move or change.”
“If you pick up a book and don’t like it, put it down. Never read what you think you should read. Never feel inadequate if you don’t like what you’re ‘supposed’ to like. Reading is personal.”
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