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Book cover for The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited
N. T. Wright: I am perfectly comfortable with what people normally mean when they say “the gospel”. I just don’t think it is what Paul means. In other words, I am not denying that the usual meanings are things that people ought to say, to ...more
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Barbara Kingsolver
“the lonely look down upon the hungry; the hungry look down upon the starving. The guilty blame the damaged. Those of doubtful righteousness speak of cannibals, the unquestionably vile, the sinners and the damned. It makes everyone feel much better.”
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver
“No credit given for all the extra miles that take you nowhere.”
Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver
“It’s a situation, being invisible. You can get to a point of needing to make the loudest possible noise just to see if you are still alive.”
Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver
“It’s hard to explain how you can miss a place and want it with all your heart and be utterly sure it will obliterate you the instant you touch down.”
Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver
“Nobody needed to get all that educated for being a miner, so they let the schools go to rot. And they made sure no mills or factories got in the door. Coal only. To this day, you have to cross a lot of ground to find other work. Not an accident, Mr. Armstrong said, and for once we believed him, because down in the dark mess of our little skull closets some puzzle pieces were clicking together and our world made some terrible kind of sense. The dads at home drinking beer in their underwear, the moms at the grocery with their SNAP coupons. The army recruiters in shiny gold buttons come to harvest their jackpot of hopeless futures. Goddamn. The trouble with learning the backgrounds is that you end up wanting to deck somebody, possibly Bettina Cook and the horse she rode in on. (Not happening. Her dad being head of the football boosters and major donor.) Once upon a time we had our honest living that was God and country. Then the world turns and there’s no God anymore, no country, but it’s still in your blood that coal is God’s gift and you want to believe. Because otherwise it was one more scam in the fuck-train that’s railroaded over these mountains since George Washington rode in and set his crew to cutting down our trees. Everything that could be taken is gone. Mountains left with their heads blown off, rivers running black. My people are dead of trying, or headed that way, addicted as we are to keeping ourselves alive. There’s no more blood here to give, just war wounds. Madness. A world of pain, looking to be killed.”
Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

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