parents have even more need of children than children have of parents.
“Memorably, he said, “I had rather have live vermin on my back than the tongue of one of these Washington women on my reputation.”
― Martin Van Buren
― Martin Van Buren
“First, the panic had struck a death blow at his presidency. Now the slavery debate was turning acrimonious, making normal politics impossible.”
― Martin Van Buren
― Martin Van Buren
“At a very practical level, the way Protestantism has often failed to reflect the historical concerns of the church in its liturgy and practice, most obviously in the mega church movement and the manner in which it has frequently adopted the aesthetics of the present moment in its worship is arguably a sign of the penetration of the anticulture into the sanctuary of historic Christianity. Christians today are not opponents of the anticulture. Too often we are the symptoms of it.”
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“Boy”
― The Dean's Watch
― The Dean's Watch
“All that remains now is to offer some reflection on possible futures and possible responses to the cultural condition in which we find ourselves and in which we are all to some extent complicit.”
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