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“It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.”
― In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership
― In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership
“At some point it is no longer a question of whether we can learn this history but whether we have the collective will to reckon with it.”
― How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
― How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
“Maybe the song you’re writing is for one specific heartbroken soul who won’t be born for another four hundred years.”
― Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
― Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
“Lad, it's one thing to be poor in pocket - nothing wrong with that. But poor in heart - that's no good.”
― On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
― On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
“What would it take—what does it take—for you to confront a false history even if it means shattering the stories you have been told throughout your life? Even if it means having to fundamentally reexamine who you are and who your family has been? Just because something is difficult to accept doesn’t mean you should refuse to accept it. Just because someone tells you a story doesn’t make that story true.”
― How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
― How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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