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When she thought too much about the past, she got lost in it, in all the things that might have been.
“You weren’t pathetic enough to enforce rank to hide from being in the wrong.”
― Empire of Storms
― Empire of Storms
“I mean no disrespect for the white-haired veterans in my town, who stand with hand on heart as the flag goes by, whose eyes fill with tears as they recite the Pledge in raspy voices. I love my country too, and its hopes for freedom and justice. But the boundaries of what I honor are bigger than the republic. Let us pledge reciprocity with the living world.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“Since the dawn of the Moral Majority, Merritt wrote, evangelical leaders “have claimed it is about character. They have claimed it is about values. They have claimed it is about biblical principles.… But evidence indicates that evangelical political engagement is really about cultural influence, social dominance, and power.”
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
“Howard thinks the rejection of science, combined with apocalyptic beliefs about the future of the world, has real consequences, not only for what evangelicals believe but for how they take care of the Earth.”
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
“As it turns out, character DOES matter,” Dobson wrote. “You can’t run a family, let alone a country, without it. How foolish to believe that a person who lacks honesty and moral integrity is qualified to lead a nation and the world! Nevertheless, our people continue to say that the President is doing a good job even if they don’t respect him personally. Those two positions are fundamentally incompatible.”3”
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
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