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So many books, so little bacon.

[micksilva @micksilva]

The best moments in reading are when you come across something you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours. A Bennett

[micksilva @micksilva]

Choosing how we employ our awareness is ultimately creative, changing the world into what it is, to us and to others. There is consequential morality at play.

[micksilva @micksilva]

People who think deconstruction is some new thing, when their spiritual ancestry literally broke free of oppressive religion to become “Protestants.”

[Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga]

if your favorite book in the bible is ecclesiastes then you’re part of the tortured poets department

[micksilva @micksilva]

Editor Sol Stein said when he edited Elia Kazan's first novel The Arrangement, it took five months of daily work for him to revise and Stein to edit. It became an NYT bestseller for 37 weeks. Rewriting pays.

[John-Uh Harris ☀️ @johnnarae]

The fact that survivors of religious abuse can come to this platform and be heard is actually remarkable and a grace to pastors everywhere.

Listen to the cries of the people.

Your sermons are like vinegar in wounds.
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[John-Uh Harris ☀️ @johnnarae]

It should not be a requirement for someone to love the Church to be taken seriously & it also shouldn’t be assumed that someone speaking out is condemning the Church.

Most of us just want to see integrity from those who taught us it matters.
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[John-Uh Harris ☀️ @johnnarae]

I want to go on the record and say that it is because I desperately love the Church that I speak out & that is the case for almost every whistleblower I’ve met.
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[micksilva @micksilva]

Fall y’all. You really can’t beat it.

[micksilva @micksilva]

“America is a Christian nation” would sound more convincing if those saying it stopped condemning the “lost” liberals they see as their enemy.

[micksilva @micksilva]

@KaitlynSchiess I guess I feel like saying “America is a Christian nation” would seem more convincing if being a patriot meant selling all you had to give to the poor, centering the marginalized, sick, and despairing, and setting the captives free.

[micksilva @micksilva]

Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. It is a pagan virtue, if these two worlds are compatible…It is this idolatry of self which they have bequeathed to us in the form of patriotism. - The Need for Roots, Simone Weil

[micksilva @micksilva]

@rainnwilson @TEDTalks "I'm a horrible hypocrite, but I try not to be." - Rhett Diessner
THIS is the way.

[micksilva @micksilva]

Three Books on Spirituality and Singleness https://t.co/WDkzdfFQzq via @publisherswkly

[micksilva @micksilva]

Tangle is such a great news source. I'm not being paid and don't know Isaac Saul, but his is a cause I care about passionately--balancing negative, biased, and destructive news. https://t.co/BdeEdjAa85

[micksilva @micksilva]

@LakeDriveBooks @PublishersWkly @RSokamoto Can’t wait for this!

[micksilva @micksilva]

Kids, I wish someone had told me, so I’m telling you: one day you will play a fun game with your parents called “WHY-DO-WE-HAVE-TO?-BECAUSE-I-SAID-SO.”

[Phil Vischer @philvischer]

It's hard to understand the current conflicts within evangelicalism and within the SBC itself without understanding the distinctions between American Fundamentalism and Neo-Evangelicalism.

The Neo-Evangelical movement of Harold Ockenga, Carl Henry and Billy Graham was ...

[micksilva @micksilva]

@andrehenry I feel that. I tend to hide out a lot. Mediate my contact. Create something quietly. It’s good to know others feel the same.

[micksilva @micksilva]

Former President Trump unmoved by reactions to his recent set of proposals to cut off federal funding for any school or program that includes “critical race theory” or “gender ideology.” #culturewar #conservatives #CriticalRaceTheory

[micksilva @micksilva]

@gilbertwriting It's a tough thing to see, let alone prove. But you're not wrong. And we've got enough personal experience to go on as well.