“Just recognize that everything you hold dear right now is a mixture of reason and faith…Don’t look at Christianity as radically different than believing in human rights or believing in your particular understanding of racial justice and that sort of thing.”
Victory over pornography use is no small thing, but that doesn’t mean our battle is over. God lays claim to every impulse in our hearts, however small.
I am embarrassed to be loved so deeply, so well, so thoroughly, so fully, and so spiritually. And ultimately, it is because I struggle to believe that God loves me far more particularly than does my husband.
“But that’s just your interpretation”: well, yes, it is my interpretation. Whose else could it possibly be? But in today’s climate, the question is not designed to offer a superior or better-warranted interpretation, but to relativize all interpretations. And that plea for imperious ignorance must not be allowed to stand.