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“When it comes down to democracy or power, white Christian nationalism will choose power every time.”
― Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

tags: christian-nationalism, democracy, power

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#2

“Christian nationalism is not interested in a government for the people, by the people,
but rather for a particular people, by a particular people.”
― Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

tags: christian-nationalism

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#3

“In my own journey—much of which is reflected in this book—I’ve come to believe that in order to faithfully follow the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, I must work to disentangle Christianity from Christian nationalism. The two cannot coexist. I must serve one or the other.”
― Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

tags: christian-nationalism

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#4

“What you choose to do today to confront white Christian nationalism—in your own life, in the lives of those around you, or the systems of which we are all a part—matters. We can commit now to consistently making these choices, hoping that the seeds planted, however small, will someday grow and provide shade to the entire garden—where we all can flourish.”
― Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

tags: christian-nationalism

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#5

“This vision of power is the central idol of white Christian nationalism. This idol tempts us because we believe that only through gaining privileged access to power over others can we ensure our own protection. But is this the way of Christ? What was his relationship to power? I have been asking myself these questions for the past twenty-plus years.”
― Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

tags: christian-nationalism, idolatry, jesus-christ, power

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#6

“Our ability to love, serve, and act as salt and light in our communities is not dependent on various symbols of Christianity dominating the civic landscape.”
― Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

tags: salt-and-light

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#7

“Jesus calls us to be a light, not a wildfire.”
― Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

tags: jesus, light, wildfire

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#8

“White American Christians can begin to look to and learn from the expressions of Christianity among the marginalized throughout history to find a new way forward, one that does not rely on violence in order to protect power over others and assuage the fear of losing what we consider ours.”
― Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

tags: christian-nationalism, marginalized, power, violence, violence-in-society

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#9

“Perhaps we should take Jesus’s prayer seriously and participate in the ongoing work of reflecting God’s kingdom—a racially and economically just kingdom—here on earth.”
― Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church

tags: economic-justice, god-s-kingdom, racial-justice

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#10

“Resonance is all about connecting with the world, with the people in our lives, and finding a meaning that is greater than what we can see and explain.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

tags: finding-meaning, meaning, resonance

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#11

“We are used to the idea that what we do makes a difference, so when push comes to shove, we resist the idea that waiting for God is the place to start.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

tags: make-a-difference, wait-on-god

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#12

“Whether we cannot see God because the secular age has malformed our imaginations or because it has made us so busy that we cannot see God, when we try to talk about the experience of seeing God, language fails.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

tags: experiencing-god, imagination, see-god, seeing-god, words-fail

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#13

“We are so used to doing that having an encounter with God surprises us.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

tags: being, doing, seeing-god

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#14

“The ‘good’ future is a mirage. Once you get there, there is always another future to chase. You never get to rest. There is never enough, only more.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

tags: chasing, good-future, mirage, never-enough

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#15

“We need to confess that we’ve led the church by leaving the present for what’s next instead of breathing in the joy of the connections of the community and beauty of the gospel.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

tags: church-leaders, church-leadership, community, connection, leadership, present-moment

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#16

“Here we’re together. Here we’re alive. And we respond with gratitude.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

tags: alive, gratitude, together

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#17

“When the image of the church is a speeding bus that will not stop even for its own leaders, we know that the logic of acceleration has captured our imagination.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

tags: church, church-leaders, church-leadership, image-of-christ, imagination

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#18

“Rarely does the Spirit come to the hurried who are seeking more and more.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

tags: holy-spirit, seeking

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#19

“The waiting that God invites us into is not a dull void but an invitation to participate in God’s own life.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

tags: invitation, patience, waiting-on-god

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#20

“To want a church without tension, discord, and conflict is to confuse the fake for the real.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

tags: church, church-conflict, conflict

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#21

“Remember your God and let that encounter shape your life together.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

tags: remember, remember-god

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#22

“God is the hero, and the church waits.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

tags: church, god, hero, patience

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#23

“Jesus is no idea, but a person.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand

tags: idea, jesus, person

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#24

“We are creatures both brilliant and ignorant, significant and insignificant: broken, whole, and healing.”
― Kat Armas, Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture

tags: broken, healing, insignificant, significant

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#25

“That’s what this devotional is about: being human. And with our humanity comes the ability to inquire, to imagine, to dream, to create.”
― Kat Armas, Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture

tags: being-human, create, devotional, dream, imagine

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#26

“One of my seminary professors once said that when we read the Bible, we should read it with resistance: constantly asking questions, wrestling with it the way Jacob wrestled with God. May these pages invite you to do just that.”
― Kat Armas, Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture

tags: asking-questions, jacob, reading-the-bible, resistance, wrestling

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#27

“This is a testament to what we already know to be true: we belong to the earth, and she belongs to us too.”
― Kat Armas, Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture

tags: belong-to-earth, earth, mother-earth, testament

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#28

“To notice the weather is to speak to an embodied way of being; it is to recognize our connection to all created things.”
― Kat Armas, Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture

tags: connection, weather

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#29

“The simplicity or complexity does not matter; I simply dream of us ritualizing and thus being transformed and offering transformation.”
― Amy F. Davis Abdallah, Meaning in the Moment: How Rituals Help Us Move through Joy, Pain, and Everything in Between

tags: complexity, moments-of-life, simplicity, transformation, transitions-in-life

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#30

“Rituals matter—for you and for me and for us.”
― Amy F. Davis Abdallah, Meaning in the Moment: How Rituals Help Us Move through Joy, Pain, and Everything in Between

tags: rituals-and-religion

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