Dionne

“It is easier to blame the person who is leaving the environment than it is to self-reflect,” she said.”
― Sarah McCammon, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

“Ask THEM the question—the people, the human beings who were treated as litter by evangelical leaders and institutions on a crusade for religious, social, and political power, a quest that wrecked their souls and their sanity. Spend three days with those wounded, joyful thrivers, those who were kicked out, fled, crawled out, or backed slowly out the rear door. Those who are hanging around the edges for dear life, those deconstructing and reconstructing their lives, those who are still haunted by nightmares of heresy trials, purity culture, and rapture fears. Go ask them if there’s any good in evangelicalism.”
― Sarah McCammon, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

“I believe God gives us the tools,” he always tells me—and that includes our minds. “It’s up to us to use them.”
― Sarah McCammon, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

“Exvangelicals, ex-fundamentalists—we know the text. We know the tradition. I sometimes say you have to hate the tradition to love it properly, to really see what’s wrong.”
― Sarah McCammon, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church