It is unpleasant to be called sinners, and much nicer to think that we all have hearts of gold—but have we? It is agreeable to suppose that the more scientific knowledge we acquire the happier we shall be—but does it look like it? It is encouraging to feel that...
America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.
History is filled with people who used the Bible to oppress other people. Being "biblical" is not the same as being Christ-like.
When our story is told a century from now--and it will be--how much of the American church ran after idols and delusions, false christs, and conspiracies? History will not only fault the pastors for not confronting us with the truth, but the congregations who forbade...
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
We want to be colorblind, but the fact of the matter is in these United States we’re not color blind, we’re history blind. And because we’re history blind, we’re justice blind.
There's something unholy, unrighteous that happens when you combine this concept of whiteness and white supremacy with Christianity... In the Bible it says any addition to the Gospels negates the Gospels--it's no longer the Gospel. When you add this gospel of...
The tragedy of Christian history has been that we have so often assumed that ecstatic language is literally true and that the experience of God can be bound by human words.
Throughout our nervous history, we have constructed pyramidic towers of evil, ofttimes in the name of good. Our greed, fear and lasciviousness have enabled us to murder our poets, who are ourselves, to castigate our priests, who are ourselves. The lists of our...
May the words of my mouth and...the motives in my heart,...the appointments on my calendar,...the texts on my phone,...the posts on my page,...the allocations in my portfolio,...the steps on my Fitbit,...the history on my search engine,...the books on my Kindle,...the...