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“Curiously, only 13 percent of those surveyed could correctly identify the source of the following principle: “You must defend those who are helpless and have no hope. Be fair and give justice to the poor and homeless.” Fifty-four percent misattributed it to a variety of contemporary politicians and celebrities, including Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and Bono. Let the record show that the actual source is the Bible—Proverbs 31: 8–9.[”
― The Evangelicals You Don't Know: Introducing the Next Generation of Christians
― The Evangelicals You Don't Know: Introducing the Next Generation of Christians
“What the mass media–consuming public has seen from evangelical Christianity has often seemed like a play with three acts—Anger, Judgment, Insularity—restaged and reenacted over and over.”
― The Evangelicals You Don't Know: Introducing the Next Generation of Christians
― The Evangelicals You Don't Know: Introducing the Next Generation of Christians
“Blaise rather liked the way that manners had been pared down to their essentials.”
― Hollywood: American Chronicle Series
― Hollywood: American Chronicle Series
“Nor should we underrate the cohesive power that psalm-singing proved in the early communities; it was one of the most potent influences in gathering and holding the colonists together in love. And they reverenced their poor halting tunes in a way quite beyond our modern power of fathoming. Whenever a Puritan, even in road or field, heard at a distance the sound of a psalm-tune, though the sacred words might be quite undistinguishable, he doffed his hat and bowed his head in the true presence of God.”
― Sabbath in Puritan New England
― Sabbath in Puritan New England
“WASHINGTON LOVES the ones who grease its gears. But history only remembers the ones who shift them,” the late Washington Post writer Marjorie Williams wrote of Baker.”
― The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
― The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
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