20 Quotes by Robin R. Meyers

As long as Christianity is the dominant belief system in America, we cannot afford to be biblically or theologically illiterate, regardless of our personal beliefs. (p. 8)

The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1 and study together. Liberals can be just as intolerant as fundamentalists, and we have arrived at a moment in human history when intolerance and hope are mutually exclusive. (p. 6)

It is a “terrible trivialization,” Crossan writes, “to imagine that all Jesus’ followers lost their faith on Good Friday and had it restored by apparitions on Easter Sunday.

We know that those who challenge the status quo and do so with both conviction and charisma are at risk of being killed.

Jesus did not come to die, rendering his life and teaching secondary. He died because of his life and teachings.

Churches are political even when they refuse to act politically, because silence is a form of complicity and thus an endorsement of the status quo.

Preaching is, after all, an audacious and dangerous act.

Where there is denial there is dysfunction, and the more one’s faith resembles a fairy tale the sooner the clock strikes midnight.