The car

     One inexpensive daily upgrade to the rental car price and my teenage son and I have found ourselves cruising Florida this week in a black Camaro convertible during my husband’s business trip. And people treat you differently in such a car! Groundskeepers don’t usually wave frantically at me and my ordinary SUV, teenage boys in Chargers don’t want to race me, and I don’t usually get tailed by police cars. These people were “objectifying” me, as it were. 

Amazing knowledge, amazing grace

Perhaps one of the most remarkable and widely misunderstood words in the modern world is “to know,” or its cousin, “knowledge.” The Latin word for “knowledge,” scientia, gives us our word for “science,” a quintessentially modern way of generating a vast body of “knowledge.”  Yet, the way Adam “knew” Eve in Genesis 4:1 reflects something quite different.

A testimonial to a spiritual father (and mother)

     Since we were remembering our fathers Sunday, I’d like to testify of my own spiritual birth when I was 15 which was fostered by my uncle Jay and aunt Muriel. This is what I said at my uncle’s memorial service six years ago about how they made possible my life in Christ:

Forced sterilizations in India

Funded by UK aid money, poor men and women in India have their ability to offer God's gift of children to this world forcibly taken away. As a mom, I can't even imagine their pain. As we learned from the previous forum, "Eve, upon the producing of the third human being, imagines herself as a partner of God in creation. In the act of procreation, man and woman image God in a particular way." Being able to image God in this way should be a human right protected by governments--where's the outcry?

He knew his wife

Based on pages 39-42 from The Theology of the Body in Simple Language

Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have produced a man with the help of the Lord.”  Genesis 4:1, ESV

They become the proud creators of new life.  But this new life is created in the community of human beings and death that is characterized by obsessive desire.   Creation and Fall, p. 145,  Bonhoeffer