“I also would have steered clear of politics. I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to. But looking back, I know I sometimes crossed the line, and I wouldn’t do that now.”
Billy Graham
The evangelist was responding to questions from Christianity Today about whether he would change past actions if he could. (RNS)
“I liked the parts where some character was once this, but he ended up being that. Like he’d be dissing Jesus, and then he ends up being a saint. That was cool.”
Lil Wayne
The popular rapper was telling Rolling Stone magazine about how he read the Bible during his recently completed prison sentence. (RNS)
“Once at work, I learned that I wasn’t the only one with a background in religion. He was hiring so many former nuns and priests that OEO could have stood for Office of Ecclesiastical Outcasts.”
Colman McCarthy
The Washington Post columnist was writing about his exerience as a speechwriter for Peace Corps founder Sargent Shriver in the Office of Economic Opportunity. Shriver died Jan. 18. (RNS)