As on that mountain, as in this year, all our plans are overthrown, and following Jesus doesn’t look the way it did before.
Purity & Love
“If only you saw what I can see, you’d understand why I need your modesty.”
So… virtue = being careful to stay out of the way of the sinfulness of young men. “That’s what makes you beautiful.” Got it.
Seven Books of Fools & Sacred Folly
What makes a fool’s day happy? And what — if anything — makes us wise?
The Kingdom of This World…
A little light for Black Friday.
Reading the Foundations of Religious Freedom
Kenneth Jackson, writing in the New York Times, commemorates the 350th anniversary of the Flushing Remonstrance, written in 1657 by Edward Hart and his fellow Flushing, New York, citizens to protest the public torture of a Quaker preacher and the fining and imprisonment of non-Quakers who allowed them to meet in their homes. Jackson notes […]