Josiah Hesse > Quotes

“Following Graham’s efforts”
― Josiah Hesse, On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right - a Personal History

“The libertarian icon—and failed 1964 GOP presidential candidate—Barry Goldwater famously despised evangelicals: “If and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party…it’s going to be a terrible damn problem.”[*] But Billy Graham had never shied away from politics,”
― Josiah Hesse, On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right - a Personal History

“On average”
― Josiah Hesse, On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right - a Personal History

“began looking at the exercise habits of adults over age sixty and found that those who used cannabis were more healthy and active than those who didn’t.”
― Josiah Hesse, Runner's High: How a Movement of Cannabis-Fueled Athletes Is Changing the Science of Sports

“Gipper. “You got elected on themes.”
― Josiah Hesse, On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right - a Personal History

“they represented a split that occurred in American Christianity in the twentieth century—the working-class”
― Josiah Hesse, On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right - a Personal History

“public school would often lead to a spiral of questions I couldn’t square with my evangelical beliefs—which was how I knew they were traps of Satan.”
― Josiah Hesse, On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right - a Personal History