Archive — June, 2008

…One of the questions I ask parents [is], ‘Are your children imperfect?’ And they always raise their hands, and my response is, ‘Welcome to God’s world of parenting, that’s where God is with us. We’ve very imperfect as well. He says that we’re just dust and ultimately you can’t expect too much from dust.’” - James Lucas

“I’ve seen parents say to their children, ‘What’s the matter with you?’ And I think if we can just remember…it’s the same thing that’s the matter with us. What’s the matter with them is fragile human nature and sin, that’s the same problem that we have and so, I think, when we approach our children, we need to say, I’m always going to have mercy in view, even when I’m distributing this justice, even when I’m carrying through this punishment.” - James Lucas

“I got a call from a reporter…and he started asking me about same-sex marriage. After about five minutes of grilling me on same-sex marriage, ‘Now I want to ask you a question. Why is this all [conservative evangelicals] talk about?’ And I said, ‘Let me remind you of something. I didn’t call you this morning and interrupt your day to talk about same-sex marriage, you called me, you asked me these questions’….So, a part of this is just a matter of perception. People keep saying, ‘Well you conservative evangelicals only talk about this’….We do care about many other issues but that’s not what the media is asking us about.” - Albert Mohler

“Consumerism…is the desire to define one’s state of existence and to find significance in things, and that constant buying and collecting of things, that really fuels a lot of other things such as the idea that you have to have both parents working…and the fact that you have to work more and more to get more and more and store more and more, then have a bigger house in which to put more and more…It’s very hard to break that cycle.” - Albert Mohler

“What we are finding is that in this culture shift, nothing is forbidden except, and this is where the legacy of political correctness really comes in, the one thing that is considered really dangerous, really toxic and should be stigmatized…are those who will not go along and accept everything.” - Albert Mohler

“This has been a learning curve for my father. I will never forget when I was in about my mid to upper twenties, and I was struggling through in some relationship and my dad said to me, he said, ‘Honey, your generation makes it so confusing…When I got married, your mother, she was beautiful. She was from a family of five and so was I. I thought she’d make a good wife and mother, and she was Baptist, and that was it.’” - Connally Gilliam

“I have been asked in a number of different settings, so, ‘Why aren’t you married?’ And it is one of those questions you never quite know what to do with because I think there really is a compliment implicit in it, but it is very easy to feel like, gosh, you are doing or you are being something wrong.” - Connally Gilliam

“I think in Christian culture, single men are a more valued commodity (than single women) because they are rarer. It is supply and demand, if you will, and there is something intrinsically then that ups the value, I think, of single men.” - Connally Gilliam

“You know, it is amazing to me, we have such difficulty as Christians historically getting this right… in getting a proper balance in terms of understanding that both celibacy and the marital estate are equally spiritual and holy estates, depending on how you are living in them.” - Richard Land

“…there are exceptions, but the goal of most religion reporters is to be warm and cuddly perhaps about other religions like Buddhism, but not anything like that in relation to Christianity, perhaps, even to increase the general antagonism and fear and suspicion of Christianity,” Marvin Olasky.