Faith

“Hospitality, thriving relationships, well-being, a welcoming atmosphere, comfort, contentment, and rest—these are the markers of hygge. But they’re also qualities seen in the first Garden home and exhibited by Jesus.”
― Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

“The Bible is theology and reason unified, and it demands study and intellectual pursuit—not so we can prove ourselves or because God likes to play games but because God made us thinking people. He imparted to us the gift of a reasonable mind, and He expects us to use it.”
― Phylicia Masonheimer, Every Woman a Theologian: Know What You Believe. Live It Confidently. Communicate It Graciously.

“I didn’t know that money could make the cell doors swing open. I didn’t know that if a woman was drunk when the violence occurred, she wouldn’t be taken seriously. I didn’t know that if he was drunk when the violence occurred, people would offer him sympathy. I didn’t know that my loss of memory would become his opportunity. I didn’t know that being a victim was synonymous with not being believed.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“The media was no help. They counted my drinks and counted the seconds Brock could swim two hundred yards,”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir