Open Gates, Friendly Fire, and a Table

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

Wise in Our Own Eyes

Being wise in our own eyes is a dangerous thing, whatever form it takes – whether excessively severe with regards to disciplining the body, or else rabidly licentious.More