Our society trains us to think of marriage as a contractual arrangement. If one party fails to fulfill his or her end, the contract is null and void. Increasingly children are raised in a contractual environment. When contractual thinking dominates our horizon, we can even make Jesus or the church an asset we think we can manage.

Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World (ed. Zondervan, 2014) - ISBN: 9780310517382