Quotes in the News

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“It’s not like we’re serving up margaritas. You can worship God wherever you’re at.”

Jamie Broadhead

Whose husband Kris Broadhead, is pastor of Mosaic, an emerging church in Birmingham, Ala., that meets in a bar (The Birmingham News/RNS)

 

“It’s a wonderful time, a great evangelistic opportunity for us. When people are shaken to the core, it can open doors.”

A. R. Bernard

Senior pastor of the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., that, like others churches, is learning tough economic times are increasing worship attendance (New York Times/RNS)

 

“Today our cultural and political differences seem mainly expressed by derision, in a kind of spiritual secession from one another.”


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Michael Gerson

Senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush (washingtonpost.com)

 

“The going price to kill a pastor is $250.”

Faiz Rahman

Chairman of Good News India, describing rewards offered by Hindu extremists to kill Christian leaders in Orissa (Christianity Today)

 

“I am a Christian. Through the centuries, we have had many people who have done terrible things in the name of Christianity. They have perverted the religion.”

Hillary Clinton

U.S. secretary of state, responding to a question in Tokyo about anti-Muslim prejudice in the United States (Washington Post/RNS)

 

“The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Baptist pastor and civil rights leader

 


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