Joel

“Our greatest strength is the exact opposite of narrow specialization. It is the ability to integrate broadly.”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“The resurrection produces a “conversion of the imagination” that causes us to understand everything else differently.”
― Ellen F. Davis, The Art of Reading Scripture

“God is a God of galaxies, of storms, of roaring seas and boiling thunder, but He is also the God of bread baking, of a child's smile, of dust motes in the sun. He is who He is, and always shall be. Look around you now. He is speaking always and everywhere. His personality can be seen and known and leaned upon. The sun is belching flares while mountains scrape our sky while ants are milking aphids on their colonial leaves and dolphins are laughing in the surf and wheat is rippling and wind is whipping and a boy is looking into the eyes of a girl and mortals are dying.”
― N.D. Wilson, Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

“Evangelical militancy cannot be seen simply as a response to fearful times; for conservative white evangelicals, a militant faith required an ever-present sense of threat.”
― Kristin Kobes DuMez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation