"Church isn’t about you! It’s about worshipping Jesus. Instead of being consumers, let’s go to church and ask what we can give Jesus because of all he has given us."
- Rachel Held Evans
"There is not a corner of this world that God has abandoned."
"Wilhelm Dilthey puts it rather starkly, "Jesus came announcing the Kingdom of God, but what appeared was the church."
"Seems to me that for you, evangelicalism is like the boyfriend you broke up with two years ago, but whose Facebook page you still check compulsively."
"In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery."
"My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind."
"You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist."
"When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective."
"Invariably, I will be referred to Gleason Archer's massive Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, a heavy volume that seeks to provide the reader with sound explanations for every conceivable puzzle foun..."
"If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to liberate and honor women, you will find them."