William Bradford

“What do you think success is?" asked the boy.
"To love," said the mole.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“Understand that these early Christians did not meet in churches and sit apart from one another in pews, and then when the music ended get in their chariots and go home. No, their churches were small, and they met in homes or house churches. A recent study by a British scholar has concluded that if the apostle Paul’s house churches were composed of about thirty people, this would have been their approximate make-up:1
• a craftworker in whose home they meet, along with his wife, children, a couple of male slaves, a female domestic slave, and a dependent relative”
― Scot McKnight, A Fellowship of Differents: Showing the World God's Design for Life Together

“Isn't it odd. We can only see our outsides, but nearly everything happens on the inside”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“History was, if anything, at even more of a discount in the United States, where a strident Fundamentalism displaying overt hostility towards the academy had made a far greater impact on the Evangelical world. Although by the 1940s a number of ‘neo-Evangelicals’ were inching their way back towards greater engagement with scholarship, progress was especially slow in the discipline of history. As late as 1982 Mark Noll, a leading American Evangelical historian, was deploring ‘the generally weak sense of history among most evangelical groups’.8 Even the past of the Evangelical movement itself was alien territory.”
― Mark A. Noll, Evangelicals: Who They Have Been, Are Now, and Could Be