Meredith Martinez

“Those who can still feel shame, whose consciences are still vulnerable to conviction by the Holy Spirit, will then step back or step away, and the shameless will inherit, if not the earth, then at least the political party leadership or the congregation or the school board or the social media feed.”
― Russell Moore, Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America

“Many of those old controversies were polarized by “slippery slope” arguments. What many of us never realized is that every side of an issue has slippery slopes and if one only sees one of them, one is probably sliding down another”
― Russell Moore, Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America

“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“The point of “exile” language is exactly the opposite of the idea that Western Christians should lament or resent losing a “Christian culture.” The point is that in every place and every culture, from the first to the second comings of Jesus, every Christian community are to be “strangers and exiles.”
― Russell Moore, Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America