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“While reading Greek poetry, my professors warned us to be careful of the double meaning of elegies; they were, it seems, often written as political propaganda.”

“A short list of what died that day: my daughter, me, my dreams, her future, all my gods, my laughter, the cabbage I covered my engorged breasts with, and this part of my stomach where I keep her sadness.”

“We are never truly ready for the end and the void and the exhale that never inhales again.”

“To think about death is an act of faith, a courage that the unknown is not empty, a belief that God is Love, and Love does not create and then abandon or annihilate. I can’t prove it. Sometimes I don’t even believe it. And then hope, the deep, innate faith, surfaces.”

In an interview… Ron DeSantis—who won the Florida governor’s race with Trump’s help—claimed that Trump was a role model for his own children. “We all have our faults…” DeSantis said. “But even [Trump’s] worst critics would say he is someone who is determined to keep his word.”
At the time of the interview, Trump had been on record as having made well over 6000 false or misleading claims.

But the more I voiced my objections and opinions, the more he resisted and the more we would argue. Whatever I said not only accomplished nothing in the area I wanted it to, it had the opposite effect. It took me… years to learn what… women have learned… Nagging doesn’t work! Criticizing doesn’t work. Sometimes, just plain talking doesn’t accomplish anything either.

I will not be finishing this 🤮

“I have met and heard about followers of Trump who have undergone radical personality changes, adopting viewpoints that would have been abhorrent to their former selves. Perhaps most confounding is how so many devout Christians have come to believe that a man who cheated on his pregnant wife was handpicked by God to be president.“

One of the best books I’ve ever read.

Evangelicalism has taught us to ask, “do I agree with this? Is it proper doctrine?” But what if our litmus test for truth was less about ticking doctrinal boxes and more about looking like our Savior and bearing good fruit? After all, if something is of Christ, then it should not cause harm.

"God’s ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine. When we forsake our way of doing things in favor of his, we experience the kind of joy and peace that inspires mountains to shout and trees to applaud."

"God’s ways are higher than our ways because his capacity to love is infinitely greater than our own. Despite all that we do to alienate ourselves from God, all that we do to insult and disobey, God abundantly pardons again and again."

What I mean is maybe you should look into the possibility that your issue isn’t actually with God himself but with certain beliefs about him — you know, flawed ways of explaining him. Maybe you have misjudged God. Maybe he isn’t this way at all.”

"Being a Christian, it seemed, isn’t about agreeing to a certain way; it is about embodying a certain way. It is about living as an incarnation of Jesus, as Jesus lived as an incarnation of God."

We claimed that ours was a rational, logical faith, when it centered on the God of the universe wrapping himself in flesh to be born in a manger in Bethlehem.

I knew what abortion was before I knew where babies come from