Many of my White siblings in Christ that join us from homogeneous churches are surprised, caught off guard, and uncomfortable with how much the Bible talks about race.
“An accurate but useless idea is still useless.”
― Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
― Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
“You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.”
― Because of Winn-Dixie
― Because of Winn-Dixie
“Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”
― The Cost of Discipleship
― The Cost of Discipleship
“a secondary effect of being angry, which was recently discovered by researchers, is that we become more certain of our judgments. When we’re angry, we know we’re right, as anyone who has been in a relationship can attest.”
― Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck
― Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck
“Alison’s mum has had a lot of plastic surgery and she wears fake eyelashes the size of hairbrushes. She looks sort of like a person but not really, like someone explained to aliens what a person is and they did their best to make one of their own.”
― The Secret Place
― The Secret Place
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