“every story of misogyny and abuse should be heard and taken to heart. The #MeToo and #ChurchToo movements have demonstrated in spades what many women already knew: Too many of us are not cherished or valued; too many of us wouldn't even know what that means. Instead, many have been disbelieved, denigrated, and dismissed, simply because we are women, and this has happened both historically and in today's churches as well. But merely understanding that the church has been dismissive, abusive, or even misogynistic will not help us... Instead, we need to affirm the positive stories and contributions of women -- not only as wives, mothers, and daughters, but primarily as God's image-bearers.”
Source: Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women
“We do not give up on the institution of family because of its imperfections-why give up on the church?”
“All the present bureaucracies of political governments, great religious organizations, and all big businesses find that physical success for all humanity would be devastating to the perpetuation of their ongoing activities. This is because all of them are founded on the premise of ameliorating individual cases while generally exploiting on behalf of their respective political, religious, or business organizations the condition of no-where-nearly-enough-life-support-for-all and its resultant great human suffering and discontent.”
Source: Critical Path
“Don’t tell me what you’re going to do. Tell me what you’ve done.”
Source: BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
“One of the key characteristics of an elite corps is its susceptibility to those more powerful than itself. Elite power is naturally attracted to a power hierarchy and fits itself neatly, obediently into the one that promises the most personal benefits. Here is the Achilles’ heel of armies, police and bureaucracies.”
Source: The White Plague
“Bureaucracies are a strange beast whose only goal is obesity.”
Source: The Southerners Guide To Surviving New York City: How not to get yourself killed.
“Sometimes he would rather battle a demon from Hell than grapple with the bureaucracy of man.”
Source: Vocation of a Gadfly
“Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity”
Source: The Society of the Spectacle
“The standards of beauty in America's über-culture are purposefully set too high so that we will buy anything in our frantic scramble to become attractive. We are meant to feel crushed, inadequate, and less-than so that we'll buy more and more things in the vain hope of "fixing" ourselves.”
Source: Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks & Other Outlaws
“A consumerism credo is a poor substitute for liberty, human dignity, and personal integrity; pursing a hedonistic and materialistic lifestyle proved spiritually enslaving. Rather than pointing its aim at raising the moral consciousness of individual persons and our community, consumerism gives its blessing to basking in wanton self-indulgence”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls