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Matt Gambill is Currently Reading

Matt Gambill is currently reading

A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book

by John Barton

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How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus' Divine Nature—A Response To Bart Ehrman

by Michael F. Bird

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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason F. Stanley

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By ignoring the state apparatus erected by those who entered into office through fascist politics, we behave as if fascist political tactics cannot transform once-democratic states into fascist ones. This is a thesis that history, as well ...more

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Matt Gambill’s Quotes

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
― James Baldwin

tags: dissent, patriotism, protest

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“There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

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“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

tags: christianity

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