Quotes in the News - Baptist Standard

“I've never met a person who intended to ruin his or her life. It's the tiny transgressions, the minor deceptions, the trivial decisions that start the slide into the swamp. If we turn down the lights slowly enough, our eyes adjust to the dark. So do our souls.”

Jim Denison

BGCT theologian-in-residence and president of the Center for Informed Faith (ABP)

“I wouldn't give Hollywood too much credit for finding religion. When they’re not making money off it, they’ll lose it again.”

Scott Mantz

Access Hollywood film analyst, on the film industry’s current interest in religion-related movies, such as The Book of Eli and The Blind Side (USA Today/RNS)

“I am what we should be—that is, post-ideological. We are to be about healing, not division. We are not to be subservient to ideology, but above it.”

Richard Cizik

President of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, defending himself against criticism he has been co-opted by liberals (Newsweek/RNS)