... innocence for not having erred or sinned. Rather the vindication was to be a holy absolution for the manner in which they had dishonored God, but at the same time their God had not given up on them. In that sense their faith was vindicated or defended. Scott Turow’s novel The Laws of our Fathers is a helpful account of how we perceive ourselves as a nation. The characters of this story were initially drawn together by the events of the chaotic ’60s. They were caught up in the protests of that era on an ...
... live like that." She quit her job immediately and became a consultant working out of her home and things worked out quite well. It is so hard for us to be caught by the spirit when we are caught by a job that takes us away from all things important. Scott Turow in his book Pleading Guilty has a passage that most who are caught in the trap of travel do not want to hear. "Now it's a badge of status to be away from home four nights a week. But on God's green planet, is there anything more depressing ...
... They think long life wears a frown, and real life is a pout. I love how Leonard Cohen puts it: "I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin." Scott Turow in his bestseller, Presumed Innocent (NY: Warner Books, 1987) chimes in on behalf of the frown with his suggestion that every life is like a snowflake: "unique in the shape of its miseries, and in the rarity and mildness of its pleasures" (398). But a Christian life, a ...
