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“I did not sell the Klan in Indiana on hatreds,” Stephenson said. “I sold it on Americanism.” These people knew what they’d signed up for: that oath before God could not have been more specific about the absolute superiority of one race and
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Disturbing.
“Being a faithful witness to the gospel should be a hallmark of evangelical Christianity. But something has gone very wrong. Think about it—that the primary public witness of the American evangelical church for the past thirty years has been political is an absolute tragedy! Evangelicals are no longer known within the wider culture for their devotion to Scripture and their belief in a personal conversion experience.”
― Beauty Will Save the World: Rediscovering the Allure and Mystery of Christianity
― Beauty Will Save the World: Rediscovering the Allure and Mystery of Christianity
“American Christian nationalism uses Scripture to advocate for many great things like safety, belonging, and purpose, but it does so by twisting Scripture and arguing that because the ends are good, any means are acceptable. In this regard they advocate not for the way of Jesus, but for the modern political calculus of “the ends justify the means.”11”
― Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor
― Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor
“Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one."
... It is when two such persons discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings or with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed, they share their vision - it is then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together in an immense solitude.”
― The Four Loves
... It is when two such persons discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings or with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed, they share their vision - it is then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together in an immense solitude.”
― The Four Loves
Jennifer’s 2025 Year in Books
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