Ted Morgan

“Not long before her death, Mary Soames, Churchill’s last surviving child, said about her father, ‘The thing to remember is that he was a journalist.’ So he was, and in his double career as politician and journalist, the writing enriched him, with earnings far larger than even the prime minister’s salary, while also tempting him to play his habitual role as a lone wolf, free of party loyalty.”
― Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Churchill's Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill

“Even if we are tired, even if we don’t feel like showing up, we are still being ourselves when we act in accordance with our calling, values, and ministry roles. Most importantly, we are conforming more and more to the image of Christ.”
― Sarah Bereza, Professional Christian: Being Fully Yourself in the Spotlight of Public Ministry

“The privilege that I'd experienced for most of my life had not only oriented me to see access and convenience as normal, but it completely invisibilized the experience that one in five Americans have when they're confronted by a system that is designed to ignore and exclude them. Disability is not located in the individual's body and mind but in the world. It is a construct: a product of a toxic culture that defines normal in the form of beauty, performance, productivity and obedience.”
― Kerri Kelly, American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal

“For a community that believed in the existence of sin, conservative evangelicals were curiously nonchalant about the dangers of unchecked power when that power was placed in the hands of a patriarch.”
― Kristin Kobes Du Mez