On not throwing the Baby out with the bathwater…
“I can lean back and critique christian culture with artist or christians of any stripe, i still end up respecting Christ, and wanting to go farther into His actual Life and way (and I often, then find some who are living that out)…it’s just hard to beat the way of kindness, gentleness, self sacrificial laying down your lives for others, and the royal law of love. And the true empowerment offered in Him to live that out.
It’s still my favorite way down here, despite us all, and our poor attainment of it. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater, as they say. Although the bathwater is very dirty at times. We really are praying to clean the water also. So that His Face comes clear through our grime!” anonymous monk.