Jordan Baker

“I generally translate "the adam" as "the dirtling." It's not actually his name; it's a title meant to reflect where the man can from, and to where he returns after his disobedience (Gen 3:19). He is the dirtling precisely because he is taken from the dirt.”
― Dru Johnson, The Universal Story: Genesis 1–11

“when discipleship is following the crucified God, then doubt is not a roadblock but the very lifeblood of faith, for it pushes us to honestly place our doubts before God and each other. Faith is the courage to dialogue with despair while trusting in the love of God.”
― Andrew Root, The Promise of Despair: The Way of the Cross as the Way of the Church

“Teenagers with doubts who felt the freedom and had the opportunity to express their questions actually showed greater faith
maturity.

Put more simply, it's not doubt that is toxic to faith-it's silence. Tough questions are most likely to sabotage faith when adults stifle
them.”
― Kara Powell, 3 Big Questions That Change Every Teenager

“The war had taught both sides that the Scriptures could inspire a threatened people. Unfortunately, it also removed some of the checks and balances that, in other circumstances, kept biblical interpretation responsive to a general Christian framework. America’s public culture came to pay less and less attention to the Bible in the decades after the war. One of the reasons was that Christians had paid it the wrong kind of attention before and during the war.”
― Mark A. Noll, A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada