Derek VanRoekel

“Advances fed on one another, occurring almost simultaneously and spontaneously, at Harvard and MIT and Princeton and Bell Labs and an apartment in Berlin and even, most improbably but interestingly, in a basement in Ames, Iowa.”
― Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

“The antidote to authoritarianism is authority itself, rightly defined. The sociologist Robert Nisbet correctly differentiated between authority and power. He defined power as “something external and based upon force,” while authority is rooted in persuasion and allegiance. Authority does not bully or intimidate with raw force but is rooted in vital social relationships and to truths more transcendent than the will-to-power or the force of a personality. “Power arises only when authority breaks down,” Nisbet argued.”
― Russell Moore, Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America

“We see now young evangelicals walking away from evangelicalism not because they do not believe what the church teaches, but because they believe the church itself does not believe what the church teaches.”
― Russell Moore, Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America