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Book cover for Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted
There are forces adversarial to love and grace in the world, and I don’t care all that much if you think those forces are due to Beelzebub, a dark tendency of human psychology, or the Second Law of Thermodynamics. If God is love and if love ...more
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Tara Westover
“It was something behind her eyes, something in the set of her jaw—a hope or belief or conviction—that a life is not fixed, a thing unalterable.”
Tara Westover, Educated

Tara Westover
“it wasn’t the clothes that made this face, this woman, different. It was something behind her eyes, something in the set of her jaw—a hope or belief or conviction—that a life is not fixed, a thing unalterable. I don’t have a word for what it was I saw, but I suppose it was something like faith.”
Tara Westover, Educated

Rachel Held Evans
“In short, we have on our hands a Bible as complicated and dynamic as our relationship with God, one that reads less like divine monologue and more like an intimate conversation.”
Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

Priya Parker
“Take the reasons you think you are gathering—because it’s our departmental Monday-morning meeting; because it’s a family tradition to barbecue at the lake—and keep drilling below them. Ask why you’re doing it. Every time you get to another, deeper reason, ask why again. Keep asking why until you hit a belief or value.”
Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

Sarah Bessey
“When I stay in prayer long enough, I am surprised by the level of emotion I inevitably encounter within myself. The stillness brings the weight, the sadness, and the freedom it always has, and a profound sense for me of what is true.”
Sarah Bessey, A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal

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