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Katherine Smith
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The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?
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Interestingly enough, and perhaps contrary to popular opinion, “Historians of American religion have long noted that the colonies did not exude universal piety. There was general agreement that in the colonial period no more than 10–20
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“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“The freedom to be ourselves, and express whatever truest version of ourselves we know of to the world as we see fit, is the most important freedom we have.”
― If This Gets Out
― If This Gets Out
“Everyone wants the world to see them as they are. The truth isn’t the problem. The problem is that the world doesn’t always make the truth safe for us to share.”
― If This Gets Out
― If This Gets Out
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,” Mattis wrote, also in The Atlantic.”
― I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year
― I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year
“failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
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