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“We are, as many of my Lutheran friends would put it, Saints who sometimes sin. We contain multitudes and somehow are both at the same time. But where I place my primary identity, I believe, makes all the difference with how I interact with the world.”
― Kevin Garcia, Bad Theology Kills: Undoing Toxic Belief & Reclaiming Your Spiritual Authority

“Deep emotional and spiritual damage are the legacy of authoritarianism in the church. It has left many of us picking up the pieces of our lives, trying to make sense of them, trying to keep hoping and believing, sometimes in vain.”
― Zach Hoag, The Light Is Winning: Why Religion Just Might Bring Us Back to Life

“The deconstructive process is a total kind of thing, with no easy answers, no quick solutions. When you are no longer under any illusions about God or church or community or calling or family or relationships, you can’t just switch gears, pull a U-ey, and head on back to Happytown. You’ve got to face the pain in its fullness. You’ve got to feel your way through the darkness. There’s no other choice, unless you want to live in denial, unless you want more of the lie.”
― Zach Hoag, The Light Is Winning: Why Religion Just Might Bring Us Back to Life

“It is a fundamental misunderstanding of Genesis,” wrote Peter Enns, “to expect it to answer questions generated by a modern worldview, such as whether the days were literal or figurative, or whether the days of creation can be lined up with modern science, or whether the flood was local or universal. The question that Genesis is prepared to answer is whether Yahweh, the God of Israel, is worthy of worship.”2”
― Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again