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“The beating heart of orthodoxy is not a personal adventure of self-discovery, a patching together of our preferred versions of the Christian faith. It’s the connection to saints in various cultures and climates, with different languages and traditions, all united by a common confession in Jesus Christ, the king.”
― Trevin K. Wax, The Thrill of Orthodoxy: Rediscovering the Adventure of Christian Faith

“The difference between men and God should be obvious. Very different from God’s act of creation, and actually quite similar to women’s role in procreation, men issue forth their offspring from their bodies, and their offspring share in their substance. They contribute something from their own bodies to create new life. With regard to conception of life, then, God is no more like the male than the female because creation does not issue forth from God.”
― Amy Peeler, Women and the Gender of God

“Mary offers nothing to women or men who seek to run their own lives. Without question, Mary is subservient. There remains a hierarchy—not between Romans and Jews, rich and poor, or men and women but between God and humanity—and Mary stands in the place of the slave rather than the master.”
― Amy Peeler, Women and the Gender of God

“the crux of the crisis was in fact slavery. This was obvious to all at the time, if not to members of a certain school of twentieth-century historiography who sought to cast the conflict in the bloodless terms of states’ rights.”
― Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War