I can only imagine one thing worse than presuming to understand the divine calculus and that would be to discount it altogether.
Month: January 2010
Look who’s sorry now
Who’s sorry now? Apparently everybody. Elizabeth Bernstein’s column on relationships in the Wall Street Journal last Tuesday explores the growing tendency to track down people on the web and apologize for something that happened years ago. As she points out, email or Facebook makes us braver and more impulsive. And there are even websites, such… Continue reading Look who’s sorry now
What kind of multifunction printer would Jesus buy?
Ephesian 5 says my job is to love my wife as Christ loved the church, which is a whole lot. And I understand that Christ did this by laying down his life for her. What’s a few hours compared to that? I just don't understand how it works.
I gave at the grocery
Giving so your generosity is announced over the loudspeaker, or engraved on the side a building, has long been suspect. And giving out of embarrassment or pressure is equally suspect.
Modesty matters
And the man and his wife were both naked and they were not ashamed. —Genesis 2:25 In 2000 a young feminist named Wendy Shalit published A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue. Why," asks Shalit, "is sexual modesty so threatening to some that they can only respond to it with charges of abuse or… Continue reading Modesty matters