“Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
Adults have their own issues and their own problems, which are understandable, and some adults are working through their own adolescent issues.- — Christian Smith Copy Share
“From the isolated, individualistic perspective of most white evangelicals and many other Americans, there really is no race problem other than bad interpersonal relationships.” — Christian Smith Copy Share
“variety of kinds of practices of generosity are positively and significantly associated with five important good life outcomes. Giving money, volunteering, being relationally generous,… — Christian Smith Copy Share
“Persons in their most developed form are conscious, reflexive, embodied, self-transcending centers of subjective experience, durable identity, moral commitment, and social communication who—as the… — Christian Smith Copy Share
Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white. — Christian Smith Copy Share
“Claude Monet's Water Lilies (The Clouds) consists of nothing more than dabs of different colored paint on a canvas.14 But because of the particular… — Christian Smith Copy Share
“Because evangelicals view their primary task as evangelism and discipleship,1 they tend to avoid issues that hinder these activities. Thus, they are generally not… — Christian Smith Copy Share
“Are we simply self-conscious animals improbably appearing for a moment in a cosmos without purpose or significance? If so, that has implications for life,… — Christian Smith Copy Share
“generosity involved in proactively forgiving other people. This form of generosity, and the positive feelings it evokes in generous forgivers, have been shown by… — Christian Smith Copy Share
“Some sacred projects are so doggedly committed to advancing their particular, packaged views of believed orthodoxies that they can become blinded to good evidence… — Christian Smith Copy Share
The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however;… — Christian Smith Copy Share
The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the clergy profession… — Christian Smith Copy Share
“Evangelicals usually fail to challenge the system not just out of concern for evangelism, but also because they support the American system and enjoy… — Christian Smith Copy Share
“Capitalism is not merely a system for the efficient production and distribution of goods and services; it also incarnates and promotes a particular moral… — Christian Smith Copy Share
“The emergent properties of my computer have existence not because they inhere in the component parts that compose them. They do so because those… — Christian Smith Copy Share
