"The key to stopping Ebola in the United States is stopping it in West Africa."

"You are loved. Your family loves you. You're a good man."

"Just shy of 500 years after the Protestant Reformation, the priesthood of all believers is finally being heard en digital social masse."

"No one can stop you from leading the community in Morning and Evening prayer."

"That just restates the problem, it doesn’t solve it. Obedience is always about epistemology."

"First the New York Times and then the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published versions of Officer Wilson’s testimony that would not have been admissible in court, given that each report was third-party anonymous hearsay."

"White racial slurs are not common in our colorblind age because they don’t work on people who possess white privilege."

"The deracinated 'basic' is primarily used by middle-class white people toward middle-class white people."

"I suspect this is much less fun for some. It's a whole lot sexier to decry persecution, to pretend we're being builled and battered by big meanies."

"What I had assumed was procrastination or denial on my father's part was really paralysis."

"Some people have told me childbirth is beautiful. Those people are demented."

"It’s cold, and your cow won’t get up. What’s wrong with her? We don’t know, but it sounds like an electrical problem."

Steve Thorngate

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

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