Stumble It!How many of you think the discussion by Halden Doerge, myself and others about Lauren Winner’s book Electing not to Vote at the following link is ‘speaking the truth in love‘? I don’t.
Tags: book reviews, David Caritas, Electing not to Vote, election 2008, ethical action, Ethics, Halden doerge, inhabitatiodei, Lauren Winner, love, Randall Balmer, Real Sex, Sojourners, speaking the truth, voting john mccain. barack obama, voting vote
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at +00:0020084431UTC26: pm31
=( I got all excited because for a moment there I thought perhaps she had written another book (Didn’t sound like her, though, but the rabid fangirl side of my brain went “what? A Lauren Winner book?!?!” and completely ignored the title at first)
the whole discussion seems rather rediculous to me – I’m sorry – but getting up at arms over a book review is just not the kind of thing I think constitutes a good use of our time – I’d much rather discuss something else (not to mention your own point abotu “speaking the truth in love”)
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at +00:0020080431UTC26: pm31
Thanks for the note. I mean to write a full post on it. For now, I’ll say that one of the things that seems to characterize those who ’speak the truth in love’ is that those who hear their words always feel the ‘love.’ It is the love that allows the truth to be heard. The truth without love is like a seed sown in good soil, but in the desert with no moisture at all. It will remain a seed only unless it receives water. Water that seed with love and it will bear fruit. Of course, as always, God provides the rain…
It seems to me (and I think Halden’s review is a good example) that most who intend to wound and hurt others in a public manner often grab onto this idea as a defense for their actions/words. This is wrong.
I had hoped to write a post about it when I had a “right” counterexample to use.
…hopefully soon.