finding Monsuun | est. 2005

An article titled “Pilgrim’s Progress” occupies some serious space in the middle of Newsweek’s August issue. The title is fitting, if you’ve read the book, as Billy Graham “shares what he’s learned in reflecting on politics and Scripture, old age and death, mysteries and moderation.”

This article was touching and cast a humble light onto the man who “was consumed with preaching and with presidents” and how age, experience, and wisdom have changed his perspective on life and faith. The author quotes his daughter:

The lesson of age, Anne says, is this: “When you get older, secondary things, like politics, begin to fall away, and the primary thing becomes primary again—and for Daddy, the primary thing is, as Jesus said, to try to love God totally, and to love our neighbor as ourselves.”

May we learn this lesson before we reach our twilight. May we learn from his experience, placing secondary things far from those that truly matter.

Read the article here.

Jennifer over at Idle Rambling Thoughts has some interesting thoughts on Paul as a potentially self-proclaimed apostle. As I delve into this concept more myself, I have to wonder what this possible paradigm shift could mean for the Church and for its perspective and reliabilty on the epistles. In any case, I believe it is always healthy to challenge one’s own perspectives — but more on that later.