quote for today

jnf sent me a copy of this article. don't have the ability to repost, but it's the one he mentioned before in CT. good stuff in there.... __________ "It is safe to say that I have learned more about grace, forgiveness, diversity--and, yes, original sin--from my family than from all the theology books I have read. Chesterton's point, exactly. Troublesome issues like divorce and homosexuality take on a different cast when you confront them not in a state legislature but in a family reunion. "Those of us who trumpet "family values" need to make clear that we are not proposing a lobotomized society of Stepford wives and their offspring. We recognize that families consist of individual human beings with all their idiosyncrasies and faults. We simply contend that the family, a very small social unit, is a good place to confront those flaws." --Philip Yancey, "Why I don't go to a megachurch," in: Christianity Today 40.6 (5/20/1996). pp. 80.