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Quotation Marks

Recent remarks on emergent and emerging, female pastors, and other news developments.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 10/29/2008 09:28AM

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"The definition has changed. I … [am] wedded to the gospel and to Jesus' command of making new disciples—not a term to describe it."
Dan Kimball, author of The Emerging Church, explaining why he is moving away from the use of emergent and emerging.
(Source: DanKimball.com)

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"We weren't trying to pick a fight. We just did a story on an emerging trend in a lot of churches."
Teresa Hairston, owner of Gospel Today magazine, which was removed from the racks of LifeWay Christian Stores because it featured female pastors on its September/October cover.
(Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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"Crusade is a dramatic word, while 'Penn Students for Christ' leaves us to decide what we are about."
Jordan Regan, a leader of Campus Crusade for Christ's chapter at the University of Pennsylvania, on why it is joining several other chapters in changing its name.
(Source: The Daily Pennsylvanian)

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"It is hardly startling that a city with the name 'The Crosses' would be represented by a seal containing crosses."
The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the dismissal of a lawsuit against the City of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Residents Paul Weinbaum and Martin Boyd had argued that the city was promoting Christianity by using three crosses on logos and buildings.
(Source: Findlaw.com)

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"I prayed hard and tried for 30-some years and then at the end, I was just going, 'I'm still gay. I know I am.' And I just got to the place where I couldn't take it anymore."
Ray Boltz, on his divorce and coming out. Boltz, who sold about 4.5 million albums in his Christian music career with such hits as "Thank You," says he lives "a normal gay life" now.
(Source: Washington Blade)

Related Elsewhere:

Earlier Quotation Marks columns are available from October 2008, September 2008, August 2008, July 2008, June 2008, May 2008, April 2008, March 2008, February 2008, January 2008, December 2007, November 2007, October 2007, September 2007, and earlier issues of Christianity Today.

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Miss Kathy

Posted: October 29, 2008 10:05 PM


Ray just "gave up"and gave in. Sin is a fight, whatever sort we battle. I think we make this harder than it already is by giving gushy attention to the sin rather than Christ the Savior. I am tired of the distractions used to divert my attention from what is the truest real.

Edmond Long

Posted: October 29, 2008 3:15 PM


For Ray Bolz and others like him, the time has come to admit to what homosexuality is all about: having sex with someone of your own gender. "Gay" is a euphemism intended to cover up the truth of homosexuality. Bolz struggled not with being "gay," but with wanting to have sex with a man. By the way, if he is living "a normal gay life," what is an "abnormal gay life"?

The G

Posted: October 29, 2008 1:49 PM


The church needs Jesus.

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