Christopher

“A sensible prayer people could offer up from time to time, it seems to me, might go something like this: “Dear Lord—never put me in the charge of a frightened human being.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird

“Everyone else has gone away. And now coming back home isn’t really coming back home at all.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

“When we understand the function of origin stories, both in our culture and in our lives, we can make better sense of those found in Scripture.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

“Spiritual maturation requires untangling these stories, sorting fact from fiction (or, more precisely, truth from untruth), and embracing those stories that move us toward wholeness while rejecting or reinterpreting those that do harm.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again