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“God has His own kingdom; no nation in this world can compare.
God has His own power; no amount of political, cultural, or social influence can compare.
God has His own glory; no exataltion of earthly beings can compare.
These are nonnegotiable to the Christian faith.”
― The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism: Library Edition
God has His own power; no amount of political, cultural, or social influence can compare.
God has His own glory; no exataltion of earthly beings can compare.
These are nonnegotiable to the Christian faith.”
― The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism: Library Edition
“He continued, “The great fault in the evangelical movement today, is that we’re disobedient to the commands of the one we claim to follow. What were those commands? Love your enemies. Pray for those who persecute you. Feed the hungry. Clothe the naked. Care for widows and orphans. Visit those in prison. Seek first the kingdom of God.”
― The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
― The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
“What you've done is you've baptized your worldview and called it Christian.”
― The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
― The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing Christians that oppression is godly. Their God ordained some people, simply because of their sex or skin color (or both), as belonging under the power of other people.”
― The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
― The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
“In a modern evangelical culture that punishes uncertainty—where weakness is wokeness, where indecision is the wrong decision—asking pastors to provide all the other answers is a recipe for institutional ruin. Because what their congregants crave, more and more, is not so much objective religious instruction but subjective religious justification, a clergy-endorsed rationale for living their lives in a manner that might otherwise feel unbecoming for a Christian.”
― The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
― The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
Robley’s 2025 Year in Books
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