Why is the church so fixated on who’s entering into exclusive intimate relationships with who? That was just one of the lines that didn't make the cut in a piece a wrote for the September issue at work. I'll probably get in enough trouble for my provocative opening (which I'm a tad worried readers will misconstrue) that it's just as well I left this inflammatory line out. The reason I liked this line so much that I had to share it elsewhere is that it spreads...let's not call it blame or accusation, let's call it... responsibility across a whole spectrum of people. It calls out those who can't accept single people as real adults until they've started dating; it challenges gossips and finger-waggers who tut-tut premarital sex without offering any constructive advice for making other choices; it points out the absurdity of males in ministry who think the only way to preserve their purity is to never talk to women; and it questions those for whom pr...
a smattering of brain droppings from a self-styled writer