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I recalled the Hal Lindsey era of my own 1970s youth. As a teen with a recently invigorated Christian faith, I too was briefly captivated by the hopes—and fears—outlined in The Late Great Planet Earth and similar books, the predecessors to
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“Religion is the archrival of intimate spirituality…Religion, a tiresome system of manmade dos and don’ts, woulds and shoulds – impotent to change human lives but tragically capable of devastating them – is what is left after a true love for God has drained away. Religion is the shell that is left after the real thing has disappeared.”
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“White evangelicals will be known as the people who defended the guy who defended the neo-Nazis.”
― The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity
― The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity
“It is important that we never separate our love for God from our love for others. For loving our neighbors as ourselves is one central way we love God.”
― Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God
― Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God
“Jesus completely abolishes all ordinary ideas and expectations people have of a Supreme Being.”
― Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God
― Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God
“He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
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