Favorite Quote of the Week

"Suppose, I said, a couple of you students, Jason and Sarah, were walking to McDonald’s after dark. And suppose a man with a knife jumped out of the bushes and threatened you. And suppose Jason knows that Sarah has a black belt in karate and could probably disarm the assailant better than he could. Should he step back and tell her to do it? No. He should step in front of her and be ready to lay down his life to protect her, irrespective of competency. It is written on his soul. That is what manhood does.

And collectively that is what society does—unless the men have all been emasculated by the suicidal songs of egalitarian folly. "

- John Piper, writing on Co-ed Combat and Cultural Cowardice (http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/2007/2475_Coed_Combat_and_Cultural_Cowardice/)

"I am a hairdresser, I heal people"

That wonderful line is from a good movie I watched with my roommates this evening, "The Beauty Academy of Kabul" which is about some women from the US who went to Afghanistan to start a beauty school. It is actually a great movie, but some of the US women were interesting...and funny.

Book Quote

I have been reading some old children's books, and this little bit made me glad:

"Are you a sinner?"
"We are all sinners, Eric. The bigger the man, the bigger the sinner, I believe. Yes, I'm a pretty big sinner, I expect."
"I'm so glad," said Eric, cheerfully. "Then Jesus died for you and me. I don't quite know what that means; but it is something good, didn't you say?"

From Eric's Good News in "A Collection of Fireside Readings"