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We spend so much time, she thinks, teaching girls how not to get raped, and then we attack them for it. If you drink, it’s your fault, but if you don’t drink, you’re a killjoy. If you show too much of your body, you’re asking for it, but if
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“If we don’t keep chasing the future, we’ll think too much about the past.”
― Becoming Madam Secretary
― Becoming Madam Secretary
“Do you want to be known for your demands for your rights, even at the potential cost of other people’s lives? Or do you want to be known as the type of Christian who is happy to be inconvenienced to serve the weak around us?”
― Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
― Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
“We think of history as moments of upheaval when forces converge, the sudden upthrust of the ground we're standing on, catastrophe. But sometimes history is simply detritus: midden mounds, ghost nets, panoramic beaches of plastic sand. Sometimes both: a continual convergence of stories unfolding too quickly or too gradually to follow; sometimes, too intimate to know.”
― Held
― Held
“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.”
― Held
― Held
“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.”
― Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
― Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
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