Egregious Reader

I started weekly door quotes on my office door. Just gives me a chance to value one quote from my weekly readings and share it with others. So, I thought I would post it here as well ... this is the quote of the week. (Two this week ... they are connected). "Not only is recreational sex no fun, but consumer sex is profoundly anti-social. The sexual revolution has retarded people's ability to create community life and to relate to one another. Even worse, our modern sexual moral code does not cultivate an attitude of respect for others, in spite of our elaborate schemes of equality and our hypersensitive habits of speech. To the contrary, our modern sexual ways have led us to believe that we are entitled to use people." Jennifer Roback Morse from "Smart Sex: Finding Life-Long Love in a Hook-Up World" We have to ask ourselves where this idea of sexual liberation is really leading us. Its perhaps very clever of us to look down on those poor suppress...

Has anyone really given him a listen? Holy Cow! Its good stuff. A friend of mine just sent me a package that included a record called "Complete and Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul" and I challenge you to find me a song as good as Sweet Lorene or Tennessee Waltz ... every song so far is amazing. Sittin' at the dock of the bay must have just been what made it on the radio with the Eagles and Alabama. But this is the good stuff.

This is from his commentary on John (commenting on 1:5): "Human life is not just the story of life and light. There is also death and darkness. This is a fact. If we ask "Why is there darkness?" we do not receive an answer. God did not say in the beginning, "Let there be darkness." He said, "Let there be light," and he "seperated the light from the darkness." The darkness ... is what confronts one who turns away from the true source of his being, tires to find its meaning elsewhere, and is thereby plunged into meaninglessness. But the light shines in the darkness. We know that there is darkness only when we look away from the light. The light does not eliminate the darkness, but it goes on shining. There is no peaceful coexistence of light and darkness. The business of light is to banish darkness, and darkness remains the background to the story which John will tell--up to the moment when Judas walks out of the light of the Upper Room into t...