Cynthia Armistead Newman

“Power is not in stopping or quitting; spiritual power is the ability to be in your agency and realize that you don’t have to go along with that deal that was made on your behalf by someone else.”
― Sarah McCammon, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

“Dogs aren’t animals,” Violet said, “they’re benevolent aliens sent here to bring humanity together.”
― D.D. Black, The Fifth Victim

“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”
― Sarah McCammon, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

“Exvangelicals, ex-fundamentalists—we know the text. We know the tradition. I sometimes say you have to hate the tradition to love it properly, to really see what’s wrong.”
― Sarah McCammon, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church