And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade”. — John 2:13–16
And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written…
The world moves. Things change, and so do we. Our people, as in every single one of us, are one in a constant state of moral evolution, and history is both the driver and the vehicle for that change.
I’ve long been fascinated with how we as Americans remember our bygone political eras and with the stories we tell ourselves and accept about them. Sometimes we learn some of the right lessons, and in those variable cases we often forget just how exactly we came to see a given moral truth. I am hardly the first to point out that…
Kai Jordan Tate Pedersen
Finding my voice again.
