Matthew Carpenter

“We are not the first Christians trying to make sense of the Bible and trying to proclaim it faithfully and winsomely in the world in which we live.”
― Stephen J. Nichols, The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World

“We can be completely ignorant about how or why something works and yet still relish the results.”
― Craig Detweiler, iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social Lives

“With each post or tweet, we choose what to keep private and what to make public, what face to show the world and what to keep buried. It is a kind of deception, and we have become reality stars, every one of us.”
― George Takei, Oh Myyy! (There Goes the Internet): Life, the Internet and Everything

“There will be active and open persecution because of the biblical worldview of churches. . . . When you have national leaders who say Baptists and other evangelicals are guilty of hate speech because of our recitation of simple scripture, then you are going to see the alienation and active persecution of churches in the United States.”20”
― Todd Starnes, God Less America: Real Stories From the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values