“Unless we filter all of our contemplation of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures through the person of Christ, the words are impenetrable. And as our first week’s study informed us, the person of Jesus is love. We will revisit this truth throughout the entirety of this book, because it is the key to every argument you face about LGBTQ+ issues.”
Quote by Suzanne DeWitt Hall
“Genesis was not intended to offer a scientific explanation for how non-being was transformed into being, how nothingness exploded into galaxies. The point is to tell us God was in charge, he had us in mind from the start, and we are to value the great gift of his amazing creation, and of each other.”
Source: Where True Love Is: An Affirming Devotional for LGBTQI+ Individuals and Their Allies
“Evaluating your understanding of the nature of scripture does not threaten the reality of God, or your relationship with him. If it does, you are worshipping the Bible rather than Jesus Christ.”
Source: Where True Love Is: An Affirming Devotional for LGBTQI+ Individuals and Their Allies
“So listen up, conservative Evangelical Christians: you have to choose. Either the scriptures are unchanging and therefore dead, or they are living and therefore equipped for change and adaptation, through the power of the Holy Spirit.”
Source: Where True Love Is: An Affirming Devotional for LGBTQI+ Individuals and Their Allies
“There are two ways to interpret what Paul says in Galatians 3:28 about our being one in Christ: either it means that we're all whitewashed and homogenized and our differences are erased... or it means that we're called to find a way to make our different identities fit together, like the bright shards in assorted colors that make up the stained glass windows of a cathedral. Are we called to sameness, or are we called to oneness?”
Source: Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians
“How could I love God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength while disengaging those very faculties every time I read the Bible?”
Source: Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
“Both Genesis and science say that the universe is geared to supporting human life. But Genesis says more. It says that you, as a human being, bear the image of God. The starry heavens show the glory of God, yes; but they are not made in God’s image. You are. That makes you unique. It gives you incalculable value. The galaxies are unimaginably large compared with you. However, you know that they exist, but they don’t know that you exist. You are more significant, therefore, than a galaxy.”
Source: Seven Days that Divide the World: The Beginning According to Genesis & Science
“The Bible had at best become like the work of Ovid or Homer: containing great truth, but not itself true.”
Source: The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
“I don’t have all the answers. More than that, I don’t even know half the questions. But I can rest in the fact that God has both.”
“In the wake of the Reformation, it was the Bible that reorganized Europe as modern nation-states. Developing vernaculars through Bible translation was only the first step towards linguistic nation-states. The Bible also provided the theological justification for fighting to build independent nation/states such as Holland.”
Source: The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization
“People who live in their heads get targeted. That’s how it works. You’re supposed to be just distracted enough to obey.”
Source: The Deep Doesn’t Drown Me: A surreal coming-of-age story for outsiders, dreamers, and survivors