“We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.” PeopleCountrySchoolChurchSupportCarPunishmentRacingHuntsGritBaptistsScotchSouthernerBourbonCar RacingCorporal PunishmentPossumsStock Car Racing Book:My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture Source: My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture
“The church in the book (and movie) plays a pivotal scene. We looked everywhere .. I mean everywhere! We had to have enough of a front yard area to house a Nativity scenes. And we finally found it .. two miles from our office. And we had been all over Tulsa looking. We were looking in places in Texas, everywhere! And I was in the car with the director and we drove by the church.” MeanTwoBookEnoughPlayFoundHouseChurchCarFrontsSceneDirectorsOfficeAreasMilesTexasYardsPivotalBooks And MoviesNativityTulsa Author:Luka Magnotta
“I didn't have an imaginary childhood friend, but I did one day imagine somehow tiny green men, and they were only tiny and green because my brother had a ton of toy soldier toys that came on a skateboard plank type of thing, and I just envisioned in this car driving to church with my mom, they were there.” MenChurchImagineChildhoodCarBrotherMomTypeOne DayGreenSoldierMy MomTinyDrivingMy BrotherImaginaryToysChildhood FriendCar DrivingToy Soldiers Author:Jim Parsons
“Therefore, when I look for a church, I look for the music that best fits me and the programs that best cater to me and my family. When I make plans for my life and career, it is about what works best for me and my family. When I consider the house I will live in, the car I will drive, the clothes I will wear, the way I will live, I will choose according to what is best for me. This is the version of Christianity that largely prevails in our culture. But it is not biblical Christianity.” WayLooksCultureHouseChurchChristianityCareersPlansCarFitClothesProgramMy FamilyVersionsBiblical Author:David Platt
“Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?” WayKindChildrenSoulEndsUsedGrowthChurchLinesCarFiguresBirthLaborWorkersSatisfactionProductionsDrivingQuartersRight WayGreedyGrossAutomobileAssemblyProhibitionReproductionBirth ControlFreewaysPopulation GrowthAssembly LineUsed CarJunkyardShowroom Author:Nancy Mairs
“Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.” ChurchPrayerCarMountainShowersGarageDance Floor Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.” DoeChurchReligiousCarSpendingGarageSpending Time Author:Garrison Keillor