She was bound for college as a PSEO student. I was bound for my senior year of high school. We both were eager to grow up. We’d met through a mutual friend on a cool June evening in Minnesota. That night we ran off and started talking. Evaporating topics of conversation fairly quickly, we turned to necking. This continued for several weeks. I would bike over to her house. She would meet me on a secluded trail. We’d snog for an hour and then part ways. It ended the very day that 500 Days of Summer was released, August 7th, 2009. I was a nominal Catholic. She was an emergent Christian, and a follower of Tony Jones.
His recent essay (if one can call it that) about World Vision is mostly meaningless puffery. I wondered aloud if his opening line that he is “not going to recount the facts” was an indirect attempt to justify using more unnamed sources than an amateur spy novel. Couldn’t he have made up a few names just to make his piece readable? Perhaps not. But he did insist on one, very nefarious, point. Christianity ought to be totally unconcerned about sexuality. It is a “lie” in his words “that issues of human sexuality are somehow central to Christian doctrine.” This is plainly false. I know, because I once thought as Mr. Jones does.
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