Quote by Claude V. Palisca

“when we expect the church to entertain us, it limits the church’s ability to challenge us. Entertainment rarely transforms.”

— Barna Group

“Youth leaders, are you holding aloft our standards, or have you compromised them for the lowest common denominator in order to appease the deceived…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“In a misguided abdication of our prophetic calling, many churches have allowed themselves to become internally segregated by age. Most began with the valuable…

— David Kinnaman

While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church…

— Ted Dekker

“For the youth, the changes were too slow. For the aging traditionalists, the changes were blasphemous.”

— Dan Brown

“This age needs rather men like Shakespeare, or Milton, or Pope; men who are filled with the strength of their cultures and do not…

— John Updike

“will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious. Nothing…

— Mark Twain

“The church is more than a bundle of ideals, as these younger fellows seem to believe. It’s more than a spiritual Boy Scout troop.…

— Stephen King

Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious…

— Lionel Trilling

“Madeleine L’Engle said, “the great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” 58 I think the…

— Rachel Held Evans

“I have a problem with a church that has its main mission aimed at preferential treatment of rich, attractive, influential, and gifted people. Instead,…

— Scott S. Haraburda

“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous.…

— Mark Twain