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Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that "when Christ calls a person, he bids him come and die." That's a hard saying. But then, the gospels are full of such sayings.

What happens when a perfectly good virtue gets turned into the ONLY virtue?

A few years ago, I was interviewed by a former student who was a reporter for our student-run campus newspaper. Knowing that I have taught many sections of ethics classes over the years, she asked "If you were to reduce the most important lessons of morality to one sentence, what would it be?" I had an immediate answer . . .

"Just as some of Jesus’ first century followers could not credit the presence of the risen Christ, so our own blindness, habit, and fear form a kind of constant fog that keeps us from seeing, and thereby believing in, the forms that grace takes in our everyday lives." Christian Wiman

Our varied human experiences are what both make us human and shape how we see and understand everything, including our faith.