"For most people who are arrested and charged with a crime, the most serious consequence is the record that’s created."

"Shockingly, this process—in which hundreds of relatively inexperienced people are asked to produce bucketloads of content at top speed with next to no proper editorial supervision, all while living with ever-present dread about putting a foot wrong—does not always lead to excellence."

"When I am asked 'How are you?' I stop myself from shouting, My husband died a month ago, how do you think I am? When I hear 'How are you today?' I realize the person knows that the best I can do right now is to get through each day."

"Even as the church has acknowledged at various points in its history the potential problems created by music’s affective power, music in the church has been one of the ways in which this affective orientation has been shaped, handed down, and transformed over time, particularly in the age of printing and the personal hymnal."

"In 2009, the subject of my student's complaint was my supposed ideology. I was communistical, the student felt, and everyone knows that communisticism is wrong.... In 2015, such a complaint would not be delivered in such a fashion."

"If you’re more conservative, make sure you don’t look too much like Tina Fey or a similarly empowered funny lady."

Steve Thorngate

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

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