“I hope God does not look like a bunch of wealthy white European dudes who are going to script the justification for the subjugation and legal ownership of other human beings based upon the construction of race as a biological phenomenon.” WealthyPhenomenonConstructionJustificationOwnership Author:Tripp York
“God doesn't want to give Israel a king, because God knows, being the rather observant deity God is, that the Israelites will become like all other nations: they will worship their king and not God.” GivingWorshipGod Knows Author:Tripp York
“Look for a church that might ask that you become poor. A church that is more concerned with showing love to those in need rather than a terrified little church who thinks they "won" because their favorite politician became president.” ThinkingPresidentChurchPoorPoliticianConcerned Author:Tripp York
“I am not going to say that people who enter the military are doing anything wrong. As I often jokingly tell my students, "Many of my best of friends are in the military!" But it's true. Perhaps not in the Aristotelian sense of the word "friendship" but on so many other levels that matter, we are truly friends.” PeopleMilitaryStudents Author:Tripp York
“When you use God as a means to procure public office, which almost all public officials do, to enact the things you want to enact, and tag God along for the ride, then you're breaking the third commandment. You're not just breaking it, you're openly flaunting your complete disregard for it and, yet, somehow, it keeps getting people elected.” PeopleMeanOfficeAlong For The Ride Author:Tripp York
“First of all, the majority of us, regardless of what we may say, are capitalists. That is, we practice it, it's what we "do," it's how we live, we are capitalists.” Capitalist Author:Tripp York
“Free your mind from the colonization of thinking within the obtuse parameters of 'right' and 'left', of conservatives and liberals.” ThinkingMind Author:Tripp York
“Grow a garden, give food away, resist the temptation to give into hate, change it up and try peacemaking for once, love your neighbor, love your enemy.” GivingTryingHateEnemyLove YouGardenNeighborTemptationPeacemakingLove Your Enemies Author:Tripp York
“Senator John McCain is unlike anybody else in not - not just in the Senate but in American politics. He`s unlike anybody else in American life. In his public life and in his heroics in war. He`s a singular figure in American life and American history. I think for everybody who has ever had a political difference with him that just instantly evaporates in the face of wanting the best for him because of cancer.” ThinkingWarPoliticalCancerAmerican HistoryMccain Author:Rachel Maddow