Matt LeFevers

“In many ways this is one of the central questions of our time about everything: is the best future a return to an imagined, pristine era when things were ideal, or is our best future actually in the future?”
― Rob Bell, What We Talk About When We Talk About God by Bell, Rob on 14/03/2013 unknown edition

“Beginning with the context that produced a text then allows us to ask the question we really want to ask, the question that causes us to come to the Bible in the first place: What is this saying to us, today?”
― Josh Scott, Context

“The message of the eunuchs also calls us to look around and ask: Who is being excluded? Who is not welcome? Who is there no space for? [...] There is nothing to prevent them from being baptized. There is nothing to prevent them from worshipping. They don't need to change to be worthy; they are made worthy by wanting to be included. Anyone who desires the water is welcome.”
― Shannon T. L. Kearns, In the Margins: A Transgender Man’s Journey with Scripture

“Does the God of Abraham look lovingly upon ancient cave drawings and temples dedicated to the only gods ancient humans could have known?”
― Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God) – A Biblical Scholar's Guide to Faith Growing Through Doubt