David Harris

“But the problem is that Jesus' kingdom (and Paul's "citizenship in heaven") was about the real world, here and now. It was about allegiance. Jesus and Paul were telling the people that they must live here with their identities as aliens. They must live by the rules of heaven amid the violent earthly powers. And to claim that one's citizenship is in heaven is to say that you pledge allegiance not to any of the kingdoms of the world but to Jesus and the body of those who take on his suffering, enemy-loving posture toward the world.”
― Shane Claiborne, Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

“To know where everything came from is to know where we came from, and where we came from has everything to do with who we are, and who we are has everything to do with how we ought to live.”
― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed

“Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.”
― Shane Claiborne, Jesus for President: Politics for Ordinary Radicals

“Functional coherence makes accidental invention fantastically improbable and therefore physically impossible.   The”
― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed