July 18, 2022 | Proverbs 6:12–15 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue Do you remember being a kid and answering a question with your fingers crossed behind your back? The idea was that you could tell a lie so long as your fingers are crossed. The crossed fingers let you off the hook. As adults we excuse […]
March 24, 2021 | Genesis 34 DEVOTIONS This Month’s Issue “Revenge Plays,” like Shakespeare’s Hamlet, share key characteristics. A crime is committed (usually violent and against a family member of the avenger), but ordinary law cannot punish it. The protagonist seeks revenge, usually through complex planning. The avenger places him/herself outside the normal moral order […]