Brazos Press

“Sometimes we’ll find ourselves tied up in knots, and we’ll need the prayer and help of others to undo those knots. Sometimes we’ll be the instruments of undoing.”
― Amber C. Haines and Seth Haines

“Even if not immediately, love will bring us justice, peace, and vindication, and when we open our eyes to the truth that love is wider than the river of grief, we can move toward the mirror and recognize ourselves again.”
― Amber C. Haines and Seth Haines

“I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth.”
― Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion

“The Oxford scholar and apologist C. S. Lewis, whose spirit will accompany us through this book, once closed a lecture to a group of apologists like this:

'I have found that nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as the one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate. For a moment, you see, it has seemed to rest on oneself: as a result when you go away from the debate, it seems no stronger than that weak pillar.'

Lewis understood what it was like to know an argument like the back of your hand and win with it. But he also understood what it was like to still be haunted by lingering questions: What if I’ve missed something? Am I just playing intellectual games?”
― Joshua D. Chatraw and Jack Carson