When she thought too much about the past, she got lost in it, in all the things that might have been.
“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
“Brenner spent the last three decades of her life telling her story about the Holocaust and raising alarms about the dangers of antisemitism. In a grainy oral history video recorded in 1985, an interviewer asks her how she reflected on her experiences after many years. She’s bitter, she says, not only at the Nazis but at the rest of the world who’d abandoned the Jewish people. And she points to the Christians who’ve enabled and participated in those evils. “We gave them the Ten Commandments. We gave them their Jesus. What do they want from us?” Brenner asks. “[They say], ‘You killed Jesus,’ which is wrong; we did not. But they crucify us and crucify us and crucify us, over and over again.”7”
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
“Love was the destroyer. It made mourners, widows, left misery in its wake. Grief and love were one and the same. Grief was the shadow love left when it was gone.”
― Rule of Wolves
― Rule of Wolves
“She could forgive the girl who had needed a captain of the guard to offer stability after a year in hell; forgive the girl who had needed a captain to be her champion. But she was her own champion now. And she would not add another name of her beloved dead to her flesh.”
― Throne of Glass
― Throne of Glass
“Hearing these things from the lips of not only my mother but from all of the adults I trusted, I often doubted my own mind. As I matured into a teenager, I noticed more cracks in the intellectual foundation that had been laid for me.”
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
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