In the World

Other people saying things

"The American public sphere is exactly the wrong place to try to hold a conversation on the authenticity of a group’s religious bona fides."

"The Christian church universal has been slow to respond to marriage's changing nature."

"Why is everyone always yelling at the utilities and not the regulators who make the rules?"

"Minneapolis has another quirk, one that’s a bit more difficult to talk about."

"Urban spaces are aggressively rejecting soft, human bodies."

"Getting blown away by a neighbor just because he’s pissed off at you for some ridiculous reason has become the equivalent of a natural disaster in our country."

"What had begun as an experiment to improve my education had inadvertently derailed my academic life."

"We may feed the homeless in our area with the sandwiches. You are such a thoughtful human being!"

“That's kind of science-fiction material for someone who just came in for an amniocentesis.”

"The devil is a character from movies who was later projected into the Bible."

"The former are always secular, the latter divided between brilliant extremists and moderates working in law enforcement."

"Would Francis Ford Coppola really think of intercutting the murder of Corleone’s rivals with the pasteurised versions of Christianity that we are now creating?"

"Pull up a rocking chair, pour two fingers of bourbon — make it three."

“We do not particularly like dancing shoulder to shoulder with gaudy and fat drummers.”

"Sure, this little girl has lived with him her entire life since her mother died in childbirth, but this is black people hair we’re talking about. Nobody knows how it works."

"History is full of quotable rejoinders that would have been celebrated widely as Perfect Responses, if only there had existed a global network of interconnected computers on which to celebrate them."

"Been cycling through family's discarded phones ever since."

"Back when engine braking was used there were almost no automotive fatalities. There were NEVER brake caused car accidents."

"His persistence is inspirational to other white men who want to take forever to make a movie.”

Steve Thorngate

The Century managing editor is also a church musician and songwriter.

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