Eventually, if we are serious about building anything—a household, a church, a friendship, a community, a culture—we have to concern ourselves with preservation. We have to ask what threatens the thing we are building, what belongs inside it, what does not, what needs repair, what needs correction, what needs protection, and what perhaps needs to be driven away.More
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Sowing the Wind and Rebuking the Whirlwind
These I oppose, who rebuke the byproducts of their antagonism – the anger, sadness, and anxiety they deliberately provoked – then question the salvation of those they provoked.More