Week of January 12

Independent Christian film, Hollywood's best investment of 2008, by a long-shot. Fireproof trailer.

The assumption is that there is someone just right for us to marry and that if we look closely enough we will find the right person. This overlooks a crucial aspect to marriage. It fails to appreciate the fact that we always marry the wrong person. We never know whom we marry; we just think we do. Or even if we first marry the right person, just give it a awhile and he or she will change. For marriage, being [the enormous thing it is] means we are not the same person after we have entered it.

— Stanley Hauerwas


The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside of marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union. The Christian attitude does not mean that there is anything wrong about sexual pleasure, any more than about the pleasure of eating. It means that you must not isolate the pleasure and try to get it by itself, any more than you ought to try to get the pleasure of taste without swallowing and digesting, by chewing things and spitting them out again.

— C. S.Lewis

Courtesy of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York, January 4, 2009