Cathy

“As Brené Brown puts it, “I went to church thinking it would be like an epidural, that it would take the pain away . . . But church isn’t like an epidural; it’s like a midwife . . . I thought faith would say, ‘I’ll take away the pain and discomfort, but what it ended up saying was, ‘I’ll sit with you in it.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“History demonstrates that racism never goes away; it just adapts.”
― Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

“Jumping ahead to the victories means skipping the hard but necessary work of examining what went wrong with race and the church.”
― Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

“An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive, abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy