Kevin

“Sometimes we’re fractured by the choices we make; sometimes we’re shattered by things we would never have chosen. But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“Christian faith has never — either at the start or now — been based on historical reconstructions of Jesus, even though Christian faith has always involved some historical claims concerning Jesus. Rather, Christian faith (then and now) is based on religious claims concerning the present power of Jesus. . . . Christian faith is not directed toward a human construction about the past; that would be a form of idolatry. Authentic Christian faith is a response to the living God, whom Christians declare is powerfully at work among them through the resurrected Jesus.55”
― Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ

“Isaiah 10Doom to those who pronounce wicked decrees, and keep writing harmful laws 2to deprive the needy of their rights and to rob the poor among my people of justice; to make widows their loot; to steal from orphans!”
― Anonymous, CEB Common English Bible With Apocrypha

“The focus on the Klan also helped to designate racism as an individual aberration rather than something systemic, institutional, and pervasive.12”
― Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide