Paul Canady

“And we learned, perhaps the hard way, that church isn’t static. It’s not a building, or a denomination, or a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure is made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“Protest is not unbiblical; it is a manifestation of our analysis of the human condition in light of God’s own word and vision for the future.”
― Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

“We can easily forget that Scripture is a foreign land and that reading the Bible is a crosscultural experience.”
― E. Randolph Richards, Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible

“The problem isn’t that the Scriptures that Satan quoted were untrue, but when made to do the work that he wanted them to do, they distorted the biblical witness. This is my claim about the slave master exegesis of the antebellum South.”
― Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope