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“Historically speaking, when faced with the choice between racism and equality, the American church has tended to practice a complicit Christianity rather than a courageous Christianity. They chose comfort over constructive conflict and in so doing created and maintained a status quo of injustice.”
― The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
― The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
“Lad, it's one thing to be poor in pocket - nothing wrong with that. But poor in heart - that's no good.”
― On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
― On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
“Christian nationalism—the belief that America is God’s chosen nation and must be defended as such—serves as a powerful predictor of intolerance toward immigrants, racial minorities, and non-Christians.”
― Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
― Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
“Whataboutism does not work with the police, judges, or our mothers. If you work in customer service, do not try this. If you work for an airline, when a customer comes to you complaining that the airline has lost his family's luggage, it will not lead to job retention if you say, as a representative of the airline, that the other airlines lose luggage too.”
― The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency
― The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency
“What would it take—what does it take—for you to confront a false history even if it means shattering the stories you have been told throughout your life? Even if it means having to fundamentally reexamine who you are and who your family has been? Just because something is difficult to accept doesn’t mean you should refuse to accept it. Just because someone tells you a story doesn’t make that story true.”
― How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
― How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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