Status Updates From The Givenness Of Things

"We poor dwellers in history. . . . The haunting fact is that we are morally free."

"Does the word 'stranger,' the word 'alien,' ever have a negative connotation in Scripture? No. Are the poor ever the object of anything less than God's loving solicitude? No. Do the politics of those who claim a special fealty to the Bible align themselves with its teachings in these matters? No, they do not, not in contemporary America, certainly."

marilynne is convincing me to love the reformation