David

“For more than two decades, as the temperature climbed in Mississippi race relations, Reverend Hudgins built brick by brick a theological bulwark of personal and individual salvation, designed to protect white Christian power and white Christian consciences from black demands for justice.”
― Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

“Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear.”
― James H. Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

“we must stop confusing his baggage and our baggage and our pastors' baggage and our parents' baggage with God's will. Because while many of Augustine's teachings have been revered for generations, when it came to his ideas around sex and gender, he basically took a dump and the church encased it in amber. But instead of realizing this was one guy's personal shit, we assumed it was straight from God.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good

“On Trump’s watch, Republicans had lost the House, Senate, and White House—the first time a sitting president had lost all three in one term since Herbert Hoover. And that was before a mob inspired by the president ransacked the country’s seat of government.”
― Jonathan Martin, This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future