Quotes from Ronald J. Sider

Somehow, if our grandchildren are to live in good, just, healthy society, we must find ways to restore wholesome, joyous, faithful marriages and families.

Advocates of the Social Gospel worked hand in hand with political progressives on behalf of child-labor laws, housing reform, and the six-day work week. They battled against alcohol abuse and corrupt political machines.

honestly don't know what makes me more sick. Listening to Trump brag about groping women or listening to my fellow evangelicals defend him," wrote evangelical journalist and radio talk show host Julie Roys.

We are evangelical Christians, pleading with other Christians, especially evangelicals, to allow biblical principles to shape all our political activity.

many attribute their turning away from Christianity to what they consider immoral, fundamentally wrong, political engagement by Christians, especially evangelical Christians.

Evangelical support for Prohibition and worries about "godless communism" during the Cold War pushed evangelicals toward the political right during the twentieth century. Opposition on the part of some to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal led to attenuated suspicions of capitalism and eventually to an embrace of commerce.

Marriage is not a human invention. Nor is it some uniquely Christian idea. Marriage is central to the order of creation. Marriage and the nuclear and extended families that flow from marriage are simply the way the Creator designed reality. Marriage and family are universal human institutions essential to the well-being of all people everywhere.

In a pluralistic society, people should be free to do many things that others consider stupid or sinful. But tolerance toward others does not extend to allowing them to kill other people.

Both biblical principles and historical experience suggest that one important thing we need is the right kind of state intervention to correct the injustice in today's market economies.

But we can rightly expect that our leaders use language that treats others with respect, and even honors them when they do good things for our land—even if we disagree with their politics.

If pacifism is not God's will for all Christians, then it is not His will any. On the other hand, if the one who taught us to love our enemies is the eternal Son who became flesh in the carpenter who died and rose and now reigns as Lord of the universe, then the peaceful way of nonviolence is for all who believe and obey him. Do we have the courage to summon the entire church to forsake the way of violence?

Being elected president only emboldened his proclivity for cutting moral corners, being lazy when it comes to doing his job, using others to gratify his ego, attacking those who oppose him, obstructing justice, and lying at every turn.

Whoever we cast our vote for in the next presidential election or in the elections to come, we must vote for someone who is committed to both believing the truth and telling the truth no matter what the cost might be to them personally or to their administration. To do otherwise is to waste our vote on someone who is not worthy of the office of President of the United States.

A team of sociologists used survey results to argue that Christian nationalism was the foundation of Trump's religious support. Opposition to Islam and keeping the United States a "Christian nation" was found to be more significant than biblical convictions.

Regardless of whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Independent, never-Trumper, or apolitical, surely we can unite on that front and agree that the objectification and sexualization of girls and women is never acceptable on any level.

Look at that face. Would anybody vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president? I mean, she's a woman, and I'm not supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?" (Referring to Carly Fiorina.)46

In this sense, the thing that most concerned Bonhoeffer was not Nazism per se, but his fellow Christians' determination to bring the church into "alignment" with it.

You never get to the face because the body's so good." (Referring to Steffi Graf)49

To a contestant on Trump's show, The Apprentice: "It must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees."55

But you have to like freckles. I've seen a close-up of her chest. And a lot of freckles. Are you into freckles? . . . She's probably deeply troubled, and therefore great in bed. How come the deeply troubled women—deeply, deeply troubled—they're always the best in bed?" (Referring to Lindsey Lohan—she was eighteen years old at the time)56

Now, somebody who a lot of people don't give credit to but in actuality is really beautiful is Paris Hilton. I've known Paris Hilton from the time she's twelve, her parents are friends of mine, and the first time I saw her she walked into the room and I said, 'Who the hell is that?

When asked in 2006 by the ladies of The View how he would react if his then twenty-four-year-old daughter Ivanka posed for Playboy: "I don't think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure. I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.

boldly summed up in a 1998 Southern Baptist resolution. "We implore our government leaders to live by the highest standards of morality both in their private actions and in their public duties," it read, "and thereby serve as models of moral excellence and character."5

their conclusion that politics was the way to stay relevant is today recognized as a mistake, a leading cause of both a decline in membership and, ironically, in loss of relevance.