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“To be clear, I'm mocking neither my readers nor myself here - it took a long time, but eventually I stopped seeing women as inherently ridiculous.”
― Show Don't Tell
― Show Don't Tell
“Jumping ahead to the victories means skipping the hard but necessary work of examining what went wrong with race and the church.”
― The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
― The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
“In a time when large swaths of the American church have merely mimicked worldly concepts of power, going for bigger, louder, and glitzier, we have to return to the small, the quiet, the uncool, and the ordinary. Obscurity may very well be the spiritual discipline the American church needs to practice the most in the coming century.”
― Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church
― Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church
“The right kind of fame arises from a life well lived, not a brand well cultivated.”
― Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church
― Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church
“Eliza wondered how many of her decisions were basically points of honour. Throughout her life, her job at the university, the bicycles and vegetarianism, even her haircut seemed as if they were chosen in reaction to the opinions of an invisible audience. She had become the sort of person she approved of but she wasn't sure she had chosen anything she actually wanted.”
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