In Our Own Voices Quotes

“Social reform held a sacred quality for the women involved; it equaled practical Christianity, the living out of the ethics of Jesus. Most reformers saw Christianity as the foundation of, not an impediment to, their work. Some also felt led to critique the church so that its message and its practice would be brought more closely together.”
― Rosemary Skinner Keller, In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women's Religious Writing