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Martin Luther King, Jr.: the Nonconforming Minority

by TA Barlow | Sep 11, 2024 | Quotes, Tracking Citations

I first encoutnered this quote in an article by Rev. Adam Russell Taylor, current (as of 2024) President of Sojourners. The article, titled A ‘Nonconforming Minority Can Defeat Christian Nationalism, is posted here. Here’s the full quote from the article:...

Billy Graham: The Hard Right has No Interest in Religion Except to Manipulate It

by TA Barlow | Mar 26, 2024 | Christian Nationalism, Quotes, Tracking Citations

This is a valid quotation, and Dr. Graham offers it as he is recalling his interactions with Rev. Jerry Falwell, the leader of the Moral Majority Inc. “I told him to preach the Gospel. That’s our calling. I want to preserve the purity of the Gospel and the...

Someone: The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled…

by TA Barlow | Mar 17, 2024 | Quotes, Tracking Citations

The 1995 movie The Usual Suspects has a great line in it, spoken by Kevin Spacey’s character near the end: The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. Where did this come from? Was it Baudelaire? Sort of, but variants go...

The Methodist insistence on life vs dogma…

by TA Barlow | Feb 16, 2024 | Methodism, Tracking Citations

The Methodist insistence has not been so much upon opinion as upon life. Its distinguishing mark is not so much what men believe, as what they are, what they experience, how they act. The unique traditions of Methodism are, therefore, to be sought in patterns of...

Peter Senge: A collective IQ of 63…

by TA Barlow | Sep 21, 2023 | Quotes, Tracking Citations

…how can a team of committed managers with individual IQs above 120 have a collective IQ of 63? This quote comes from Peter Senge’s book The Fifth Discipline (1990), page 9. It is in a subsection titled “Team Learning.”
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