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The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

by Jamie Ford (Goodreads Author)

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Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation

by Jon Ward

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All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope—And Hard Pills to Swallow—About Fighting for Black Lives

by Andre Henry

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Jere’s Quotes

“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

tags: crazy, happiness, woman, women

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“it's not god who's fucked up, it's the screamers who say they believe in him and who claim to pursue their ends in his holy name.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

tags: christian-behavior, zealots

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“It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.”
― Robyn Davidson, Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback

tags: australia, dogs, robyn-davidson, tracks

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“Better is one day in the company of those bullied by Christians but loved by Jesus than thousands in the company of those wielding scripture to harm the weak and defenseless.”
― David P. Gushee, Changing Our Mind: A call from America's leading evangelical ethics scholar for full acceptance of LGBT Christians in the Church

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“I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

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