Ted Morgan

“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

“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

“It wasn’t until I discovered what yoga isn’t that I truly understood what it really is. Yoga is not an escape from the harsh realities of our world. It is not a blissed-out bright-siding of the truth of who we are and where we come from.* And it is not the exclusion of any part of our experience or history. Yoga means “to yoke,” to unite all the disparate parts of ourselves without exception. It invites us to confront the personal and collective obstacles that are in the way of our liberation.”
― 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