Lindy

“The weak were on their own. This friend felt that those at risk should bear the burden of responsibility for protecting themselves rather than imposing on others precautions against spreading the virus. This was the perfect crystallization of a hyper-individualistic Christianity. In his view, none of us are part of a whole. We are atomized souls who speak to Jesus one on one. “America’s idolatry of individual rights over the common good has made fertile ground to see any inconvenience as persecution,” wrote Shane Claiborne, a Christian author and activist.”
― Jon Ward, Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation

“And don’t forget, the Son of God himself spent his entire life on earth far from the mountaintop. . . . He was persecuted and punished by a “mountain king” named Pilate and executed next to a thief. When he rose, he appeared not to Caesar but to a small band of ordinary men and women who would become martyrs, not rulers. Christ prevailed . . . not by fighting from the commanding power of the heights, but by fighting from “utterly different terrain.” When scripture calls Christians to “take up your cross and follow me,” it’s declaring . . . that “our mountain is Golgotha”—the dusty Israeli hill where Christ was crucified.”
― Jon Ward, Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation

“In Mara’s experience, the supernatural was purely the presence of good, the love that burns free of the corpse; always love that tries to escape the human terror.”
― Anne Michaels, Held

“And Hertha knew there was no medicine more important than knowing there was someone in the world who knew the very heart of you, and would protect you. Without irony, Hertha thought, mothers of all lands, unite.”
― Anne Michaels, Held