In plain language: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. Children who come to school already rich in knowledge and vocabulary are poised to extend those advantages over children who grow up in comparatively language-poor homes with
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“The power of just mercy is that it belongs to the undeserving. It’s when mercy is least expected that it’s most potent—strong enough to break the cycle of victimization and victimhood, retribution and suffering. It has the power to heal the psychic harm and injuries that lead to aggression and violence, abuse of power, mass incarceration.”
― Just Mercy
― Just Mercy
“In a country where possessions counted for everything, we had no belongings except our stories.”
― The Refugees
― The Refugees
“By the time our conversation ended last night, Hannah had taken a huge turn. She learned that the doubts, fears, and self-centeredness were really the opposite of the faith, hope, and love described in 1 Corinthians 13. She knew that she still lacked faith and hope, and still wrestled with doubts and fears. But little Jenny had shown her that the answer to self-centeredness isn’t endless self-examination, but simply love—a love that reaches outside of itself, and focuses on helping those whose plight is worse than our own.”
― A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty
― A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty
“Is it too late for mainstream America? I wonder. As long as we are convinced that our problems are due to an abundance of wickedness that we must combat, we are in serious trouble. We need to learn to turn over the problem of the wicked to God and focus on remedying the tragic absence of good. In the absence of good, all efforts to combat evil are doomed to failure.”
― A New Christian Manifesto: Pledging Allegiance to the Kingdom of God
― A New Christian Manifesto: Pledging Allegiance to the Kingdom of God
“It happens to all of us," I concluded that Easter Sunday morning. "God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity and resurrecting us from the graves we dig for ourselves through our violence, our lies, our selfishness, our arrogance, and our addictions. And God keeps loving us back to life over and over.”
― Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
― Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
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