We're Back

Getting back from vacation is a major bummer! It's hard to leave a place that's 80 degrees and just abudant with golf courses. We had a great time, and Levi was in the pool so much that we were sure he was going to turn into a fish. I am not looking for any sympathy because anyone fortunate enough to get out of NY and go to CA in February deserves the smallest amount of sympathy possible.




Read this today in an article from The Other Journal in their issue about Gender and Sexuality:

People go into marriage basically, I think, with fundamentally selfish motivations. Most of us get married because we think "My life is better with this person than without." It's natural, it's human nature. But at root, it's all selfish. What I'm trying to say is that marriage is the antithesis of selfish. It's modeling Christ, who said, "I came not to be served but to serve." It calls us to die to ourselves, to put somebody above ourselves. And that's where, I think, the gender discussions becomes fuzzy. Because i don't just look at it theologically; I look at it in terms of spiritual formation. I think God designed marriage to humble women, and I think God designed marriage to humble men. Any proclamation that is creating arrogance and pride runs up against the verse that is repeated three times in scripture; "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." It's in Peter, James, and Proverbs. And so I begin by assuming that Marriage calls us to sacrifice, calls us to humility, and calls us to put someone [else] above our own desires.

- Gary Thomas in Evangelicalism, Marriage and Holy Sexuality: An Interview with Gary Thomas

There is also a great article about Sufjan Stevens titled: Reconciling Sufjan Stevens: Religious Hipsters and The Inevitable Queerness Of Christian Music