Amanda Phillips

“be filled with believers from everywhere: New York, Mississippi, China, Kenya, Saudi Arabia. I don’t know exactly what it will look like, but I can guess that it will look more like my current neighborhood, with its diversity of faces, than the neighborhood where I grew up. Same goes for the Democratic Party, if you’ll allow me this leap: it has more black and brown faces (many of whom are also Christians), which says something. I want to be in a party that looks the most like the kingdom of heaven, and if an overwhelming majority of non-white voters feel heard and cared for by one side, I should pay attention.”
― Elizabeth Passarella, Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York

“In the Bible, repetition implies importance. Jesus spends a lot of time telling us to love our neighbors. Care for the poor and marginalized. Help the needy. Have dinner with the people in your community that you despise the most. Welcome the stranger. See every man, woman, and child as image bearers of God, valued and beloved. For me, one party tends to favor policies that do that more than the other. It’s as simple as that. My Republican friends will argue with me”
― Elizabeth Passarella, Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York

“brilliant, blunt, and unsentimental, which is right up my alley.”
― Elizabeth Passarella, Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York