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“I also would have steered clear of politics. I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to. But looking back, I know I sometimes crossed the line, and I wouldn’t do that now.”

Billy Graham

Evangelist, on whether he would do anything differently if he could change past action (Christianity Today/RNS)

 

“I miss her terribly, but those people who killed her need to be saved. I pray for them, that God will have mercy on them and help them to know him.”

Sam Davis

Missionary, expressing his grief over the murder of his wife, Nancy, in Mexico when they were ambushed by suspected drug smugglers (AP/RNS)

 

“The time has come to stop funding the leisure of rich white people—all public monies for the arts should cease. … In the spirit of social justice, a better case could be made to fund professional wrestling. It’s what the working class enjoy.”


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Bill Donohue

President of the Catholic League, who successfully pushed the Smithsonian to remove a video installation by a gay artist that featured ants crawling on a crucifix, which he said was insulting to Catholics (RNS)

 

“What the church has done wrong is that it has created these ‘holy huddles’ of Christian magazines, music and schools that have set them apart from the world because the world is bad. Instead of doing what Christ did, and bring light to the world, they retreat from it.”

Jim Beckemeier

Member of the Journey, a Southern Baptist megachurch of mostly younger evangelicals that meets once a month in the back room of a bar (New York Times/RNS)

 

 

 


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