Quote of the Day

We forget sometimes that the Epistles are just that...epistles.  They are letters, broken pieces of correspondence between early Christians, dating back thousands of years.  In our rush to extract sound bites for our nature-themed desk calendars, we tend to skip past the initial greetings that designate the recipients of the message -- "to the church of God in Corinth," "to the churches in Galatia," "to God's holy people in Ephesus," "to Timothy," "to Titus," "to Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker -- also to Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow solider -- and to the church that meets in your home" -- and scan over the details that should remind us that we are essentially listening in on someones else's conversation...

-- Rachel Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, p. 259