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“I watch what people do, and I listen to what they say. If there is a discrepancy—bearing in mind that there is always a discrepancy—then I watch harder. As a broad general rule, believe what you see, not what you hear.”
“It is easier to blame the person who is leaving the environment than it is to self-reflect,” she said.”
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
“Perhaps the best statistical evidence for this shift lies in the 2021 Pew Research Center survey that found a growing tendency among white supporters of Donald Trump to newly adopt an evangelical identity. “In the end, their own movement was redefined as a reactionary, angry, white Christian, storm-the-Capitol movement,” Gushee said. “People who don’t have any idea about classical evangelical doctrines, but by God, they like Trump and they’re white, so therefore they’re evangelical. That is a complete collapse of moral and religious identity that evangelicals brought on themselves.”
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
“This is the one thing that brings the most meaning and satisfaction to existence,” Grandpa wrote. “I think we are here to help our fellow man,” he said. “To do this we must be accepting first of ourselves and our imperfections, and then, of other people and their differences. To overcome our intolerance and fear of others, and to appreciate and even emulate their good qualities, gives us a feeling for the fullness of”
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
“It’s a slightly different form—and probably a healthier form, I can acknowledge that—of ‘just go talk to the pastor,’” Peck said. “If that’s helpful and useful and is consistent with what the person needs, that can be a really amazing resource. But when that’s a way of not addressing health concerns, or not getting the depression treatment that you need, it can be counterproductive.”
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
“Ask THEM the question—the people, the human beings who were treated as litter by evangelical leaders and institutions on a crusade for religious, social, and political power, a quest that wrecked their souls and their sanity. Spend three days with those wounded, joyful thrivers, those who were kicked out, fled, crawled out, or backed slowly out the rear door. Those who are hanging around the edges for dear life, those deconstructing and reconstructing their lives, those who are still haunted by nightmares of heresy trials, purity culture, and rapture fears. Go ask them if there’s any good in evangelicalism.”
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
― The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
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