Kevin

“anyone trying to be a Pauline exegete while still in thrall to Luther should consider a career as a taxidermist. Heroes are to be engaged with, not stuffed and mounted and allowed to dominate the room.”
― N.T. Wright, Paul and His Recent Interpreters

“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

“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

“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