"I had managed to keep my composure in the grocery store, and even when I was putting away my cart back to get my quarter back. But as I drove home, the tears came. I began the ugly cry."
"Tears-pouring-down-my-face, couldn't-talk-couldn't-breathe kind of laughing. Screaming laughing. So hard that I was sobbing because I couldn't get it together."
The second-largest Protestant denomination in America is now teetering on the edge of breakup after the Traditional Plan gained support from 56 percent of the over 800 attendees at the 3-day conference.
"My faith is important to me but no church defines me or my life, and I am not a spokesman for any church or any group of people. My values define who I am. We need less hate in this world, not more."
"I'm not even lying to you, I probably did 27 things yesterday that if you would've witnessed, you'd have been like, 'Wow, I thought he was a Christian.'"
She thought she was a Christian lesbian; "I actually considered myself a Christian at that point, though I had no desire to read God’s Word, let alone conform my life to his will."
