INTRODUCTION: This Is Really About That
1 Genesis 25, 27.
2 Genesis 28:11. “In a certain place” is one of the many places in the Bible where phrases and words appear to be ordinary and yet are the windows and doors to new understandings of the story.
3 Verse 15. There is a vast tradition of commentary on this passage. Lawrence Kushner’s God Was in This Place and I, I Did Not Know It (Jewish Lights Publishers) is an excellent place to start. Read this book with your friends and you’ll have things to talk about for years.
4 For examples of this, see 1 Kings 3:2; 11:7; 12:31; 13:2; 14:23; and 22:43.
5 Verses 20–21.
6 Genesis 35:7.
7 I’m sure Jacob’s kids understood altars and shrines and piles of rocks in the sense that people did this all the time in the ancient Near East. My hypothetical dialogue between Jacob and his children is about why. Why this altar here, Dad? The most symbolic act here would have been the standing of one stone, called a massabah in Hebrew, on top of all the others.
CHAPTER ONE: God Wears Lipstick
1 I first came across Gonin’s diary in the manifesto of the legendary British graffiti artist named Banksy, whom you must get to know (Banksy.co.uk). He cites the Imperial War Museum as his source for the diary (Banksy, Wall and Piece).
2 Genesis 1:27.
3 Several excellent commentaries on Genesis: Nahum Sarrna’s Understanding Genesis, Henri Blocher’s In the Beginning, and JPS Torah Commentary, Genesis edition.
4 JPS Torah Commentary: “While he is not divine, his very existence bears witness to the activity of God in the life of the world” (12).
5 I used the phrase “divine spark.” What would you call it? When have you seen it? How do you describe it?
6 Recently I saw my friend Josh, who teaches fifth and sixth graders. He was preparing the lesson for that day and had his supplies with him: a large glass bowl, a can of beef, fatty tissue, sauerkraut, a jar of olives, some anchovies, and a hundred-dollar bill. I know— I was curious too. So I did exactly what you would have done. I asked him what his lesson was about. He replied, “I put all of the ingredients in a bowl, including the money, and then I mix it together. Then when it doesn’t taste good, I pretend I’m going to throw it away. At this point the kids go crazy, telling me not to. I ask them why I shouldn’t, and they say, ‘Because it’s valuable.’ And then I counter with, ‘But it smells and it’s disgusting.’ At which point they rush to the front, volunteering to reach into the bowl and pull out the hundred-dollar bill. Actually, I may have to start using a twenty for this lesson, because the last time I used a hundred, they trampled each other to get to the front. I then read to them from Genesis chapter 1 about how every single human being bears the image of God and how no matter what else is mixed in there, a person still has limitless worth in God’s eyes.”
7 Does this sound familiar? Does this stop when you leave high school? Have you ever been that girl? Or that boy? Or that crowd?
8 Matthew 5:27–30.
9 Which makes sense if you’ve ever had someone angry with you. It doesn’t matter whether they’ve acted on that anger, just the fact that you know they’re angry with you means something. Something that is in their heart and is never expressed still hurts. Why is this?
10 What book would be complete without at least one Monty Python reference?
11 Psalm 103:19.
12 Psalm 115:16.
13 For a very helpful explanation of hell, read chapter 10 in Following Jesus by N. T. Wright.
14 In Matthew 18:6, Jesus uses the image of a millstone being hung around someone’s neck before they’re thrown into the sea. In Luke 19:11–27, in the parable of the ten minas, the story he tells ends with the delegation being slaughtered in front of the king. And in Luke 20:9–19, the heir is killed, and in response the owner kills the tenants. Why does Jesus tell so many stories and use so many examples that involve violence?
15 The organization my friend worked with is called International Justice Mission (IJM.org). Give them lots of money so that they can continue to do great things among the most forgotten and oppressed. Freetheslaves.net reports that there are 27 million slaves in the world . . . today. More than ever in human history.
16 Ephesians 2.
17 Genesis 1–11.
18 The word community comes from the word common. Community isn’t really created—it’s discovered. We discover what we’ve had in common all along. We don’t make these bonds from scratch, we merely become aware of bonds that have been there all along.
19 Exodus 12; Matthew 26; 1 Corinthians 11.
20 Matthew 22:39, which is from Leviticus 19:18.
21 Lil’s husband’s name is Warren, and you really must meet him sometime.
22 Jean Vanier’s Becoming Human is a classic work on seeing “only one label.”
CHAPTER TWO: Sexy on the Inside
1 For a powerful look at how life in the modern world is affecting how we spend our time, read In Praise of Slow by Carl Honoré.
2 Two of the best books I have read on our relationship to the earth are For the Beauty of the Earth by Steven Bouma-Prediger and Barbara Kingsolver’s Small Wonder. And then, when you’re done with those two books, you really must get your hands on Kingsolver’s stunning piece of literature called The Poisonwood Bible.
3 Genesis 1–3.
4 Several of the big ideas in this chapter were inspired and affirmed and guided by Ronald Rolheiser’s The Holy Longing. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
5 Ephesians 4:6.
6 Hebrews 2:10.
7 Marva Dawn makes this distinction in her magnificent book Sexual Character.
8 Rolheiser puts it this way: “We are built to ultimately embrace the universe and everything in it.”
9 I call him a friend, but he’s a hero and a prophet as well. Shane Claiborne lives in Philadelphia and recently wrote a book called Irresistible Revolution.
10 As one said recently, “I can’t imagine being married. It would take so much time!”
11 One of the best books on learning how to forgive people I’ve come across is Lewis Smedes’s Art of Forgiving.
12 Trust me, she’s that brilliant quite often. She insists that she got this from an interview with Bono in which he used the phrase. I say we credit them both.
CHAPTER THREE: Angels and Animals
1 There’s an advertising campaign running right now for the city of Las Vegas that says, “Whatever happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas.” How boring does your life have to be that you need to go somewhere far away and do things you don’t want anybody to know about to have a good time?
2 1 Corinthians 6:13.
3 1 Corinthians 6:19. He’s writing to a church here, a group of people, so the “you” is plural.
4 Blaise Pascal said, “Man is neither angel nor beast” (Pensées [London: Dent, 1960], 68).
5 I’m using the word spirit here in reference to the distinction made in Genesis between humans and the rest of creation, humans being made in the image of God. In the sense that the word for spirit is also the word for breath in both Hebrew and Greek, then obviously animals do have spirits, as we read in Ecclesiastes 3:21.
6 Job 38:7.
7 Psalm 8:5.
8 Hebrews 1:14.
9 Being fully human is our job. Thinking and laughing and arranging and creating and relating and designing and nurturing and responding and reacting and pondering when googling became a verb and wondering and exploring and meditating and acting and making long lists of verbs and calling and talking and feeling and sharing and doubting if this paragraph is ever going to end and teaching and learning and jumping on a trampoline and sighing and celebrating and dancing and turning to the person next to you and saying: “This is living.”
You can make your own list because you know what it is that makes you feel alive, what it is that feeds your soul, what it is that reminds you that the goal is to be fully human. What’s on your list?
I’ve heard people say, “I’m only human,” as if it’s a bad thing. But being human isn’t a bad thing; it’s a good thing. It’s what God intended. How could we ever be anything else?
The issue, then, isn’t trying to escape our humanity in order to morph into something, or somebody, else. The problem is all of the things that get in the way of being fully human. When a person says, “I’m only human,” perhaps what they mean is, “I have this habit of making choices that inhibit my being fully human.” This is a primal struggle in all of us, and it goes all the way back to the garden of Eden. The temptation was, and is, to trade our full humanity for something else.
10 1 Timothy 4:1–5.
11 1 Timothy 4:3.
12 Verses 4–5.
13 The God Factor by Cathleen Falsani.
14 The word confession in the Hebrew language literally means “to cast or throw out.” To confess simply means to get it out.
15 xxxchurch.com, a resource for porn-addiction recovery.
16 I was on vacation with my extended family, miles from pavement and the internet and the phone and the news, when my sister-in-law joined us, having flown across the country to get there. After she had unpacked and gotten settled, she came into the living room and said to me, “I thought you’d enjoy these. I bought them in the airport.”
As she said this, she placed in front of me a stack of those magazines. You know the ones I’m talking about—the glossy ones with pictures of celebrities doing extraordinary things like getting coffee and picking something up at the dry cleaners and walking their dogs. Those magazines, the ones that you tell yourself you’re not going to read because it’s meaningless fluff and yet you find yourself getting your oil changed or at the dentist’s office or waiting to get your hair cut . . . and you’re hooked.
It seems that while I had been away in the woods something very important was happening with a famous handsome actor that we all needed to know about. He was filming a movie with a famous actress, and rumors had started that their relationship was more than professional. They denied it and he proved they were just rumors by appearing in public with his beautiful actress wife, whom everybody loves. But then he and his wife announced they were separating. And then came the shocker: pictures of the famous handsome actor on vacation with the famous actress he was in the movie with. Reading this story in the magazine my sister-in-law put in front of me, I had only one question: “Do the other magazines have any important details this magazine missed?” And so I read and read until I was fully abreast of the situation.
Because, of course, we all need to know.
What struck me most was what the famous actress said about their affair, which was now public thanks to the covers of a multitude of magazines. She said that she and the famous handsome actor “couldn’t help themselves.”
Couldn’t help themselves?
Now these are incredibly disciplined people who are known for their outstanding work ethic. If they want to gain weight or lose weight or learn an accent or acquire a new skill for a film, they do it. They’re both legendary for how much—let me find the right word here—for how much control they’re able to exercise over their lives. They’ve built incredibly successful careers on it. And yet when it comes to each other—when it comes to sex—they “can’t help themselves.”
Why is this? Is it just the way it is? Can you relate?
17 Genesis 1.
CHAPTER FOUR: Leather, Whips, and Fruit
1 2 Samuel 13:1–22.
2 Renée Altson’s Stumbling toward Faith is an honest, raw, hopeful memoir by someone who’s healing from sexual abuse. The first page of the first chapter will take your breath away.
3 Genesis 1–3.
4 Genesis 3:6. It was a watermelon.
5 For a very insightful look at the philosophy of design, read John Maeda’s The Laws of Simplicity.
6 Ephesians 4:18.
7 The last reflections of Anthony Demello, The Way to Love.
8 Look up the word remember in a concordance of the Bible. Why does it occur so often?
9 1 Corinthians 6:12.
10 Ephesians 4:18.
11 Ephesians 4:19.
12 Ephesians 6:19.
13 Garrett Keizer writes in his book The Enigma of Anger that the worldview of the lustful “runs counter to God’s vision. Nothing they see is good, or good enough, or else nothing they see is enough of the good. In other words, you can never please them, which is as good a definition as you may get of what it means to be damned.”
14 Cornelius Plantinga in his book Engaging God’s World has a brilliant quote about the devil wearing makeup. Essentially, that which isn’t good has to dress up and disguise itself as good to get our attention.
15 Ephesians 4:28.
16 In the book of Luke, in chapter 9, we’re told that Jesus “resolutely set out for Jerusalem.”
Then in chapter 13 we’re told that Jesus was going through the towns and villages, “teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem.”
In chapter 17 we read, “Now on his way to Jerusalem . . .”
And then chapter 18, “Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, ‘We are going up to Jerusalem.’ ”
And then in chapter 19, “After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.”
Apparently Luke wants us to see something here, and so he brings it up again and again and again. Jesus is going to—let’s all say it together—Jerusalem.
Jesus has given his life to something. And this something that he’s given his life to is taking him to Jerusalem, to a confrontation with the religious establishment. He’s given his energies to this—to healing, to teaching, and to identifying with the outcasts and the unclean along the way. He’s on the way somewhere. There’s even a point where he’s been in a village and he’s leaving and the people of the village try to get him to stay. But he leaves anyway. He is able to walk away from people who are pleading with him to stay in their village. How can he walk away?
Because he has a larger calling he’s given himself to: going to Jerusalem.
CHAPTER FIVE: She Ran into the Girls’ Bathroom
1 Song of Songs 2:8–13.
2 5:2–6.
3 This is a joke.
4 No offense to country music fans everywhere.
5 This is called anthropomorphism, giving God human attributes. God is spirit, without gender or form or shape or physicality, so when we say that God “has a heart,” it’s a metaphor, a figure of speech, a way of explaining things in language we can understand.
6 Please go read everything Donald Miller has ever written.
7 Yes, I’m referring to Star Wars. May the force be with you.
8 Exodus 20:1–21.
9 Verse 18–19. Later, in Exodus 34, Moses has to wear a veil because he’s been on the mountain with God and when he returns to the people, again they can’t handle it. “And they were afraid to come near him.”
10 Matthew 1:18–24.
11 Luke 2:7.
12 Mark 3:21.
13 Luke 4:14–30.
14 Matthew 8:1–4.
15 Luke 7:36–50.
16 Luke 7:14. Actually, the text says he touches the bier they were carrying the dead man on, which we would assume includes touching the dead man.
17 John 4:1–42.
18 Matthew 21:1–11.
19 Luke 19:41.
20 Matthew 16:21; Mark 8:31; 9:12; Luke 9:22; 17:25; 22:15. Notice how late in the story he mentions that he’s going to suffer, but once he first mentions it, he then starts mentioning it more and more often.
21 Luke 23:8.
22 John 19:28.
23 The statements Jesus makes on the cross are quotes from Psalm 22. It makes for a fascinating study, especially in light of how Psalm 22 ends.
24 Philippians 2:5–11.
25 Matthew 5.
26 I just bought a book by Mark Kurlansky called Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea. This is a book we need to be reading now more than ever.
27 Luke 23:47.
28 If you are that girl who wouldn’t dance with me, I have forgiven you.
CHAPTER SIX: Worth Dying For
1 For an in-depth, accessible explanation of this passage, see John Bristow’s What Paul Really Said about Women.
The verb submit here is in the imperative, middle voice. The active voice means you are doing it, the passive voice is when it’s being done to you, and the middle voice is a voluntary action by the subject on the subject, such as teaching yourself. It’s something you do to yourself voluntarily, willingly, actively.
2 John 3:16.
3 John 15:13.
4 Song of Songs 6:3.
5 1 Corinthians 7:3–4.
6 1 Corinthians 4:21; John 15:13; Romans 13:10; 1 John 4:7; Ephesians 2:4.
7 Frederick Buechner’s Secrets in the Dark has a section on agape that is stunning. A classic book on agape is C. S. Lewis’s The Four Loves.
8 Romans 5:8.
9 1 Corinthians 1:26.
10 Jeremiah 1:4–5.
11 John 15:16.
12 Theologians call this “escatalogical realism.”
13 When Jesus is tempted in the wilderness (Matt. 4), the tempter begins, “If you are the Son of God . . .” And yet several verses earlier, at Jesus’s baptism, the voice from heaven had just declared, “This is my Son, whom I love, with him I am well pleased.”
14 There’s a poem in the Bible called the Song of Songs, in which the woman says that she wants the man to “kiss me with the kisses of his mouth—for your love is more delightful than wine” (1:2). She tells him, “Take me away with you” (1:4). She says she’s “faint with love” (2:5).
She is sexually alive, full of longing, expressing herself, full of desire—this is a woman with no hangups. And yet she says something fascinating later on in the poem. She says, “But my own vineyard is mine to give” (8:12).
Why is this significant? Because in the ancient Near East, a vineyard is a metaphor for sexuality. She’s not going to give herself away to just anybody. It’s her decision, and she will make it without coercion or manipulation.
She’s alive sexually, and yet it doesn’t control her.
And how does the man respond?
He tells her, “You are a garden locked up . . . you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain” (4:12). “You are a garden fountain, a well of flowing water” (4:15).
Why all of this talk about water? Because it’s a symbol of life and vitality and energy and purity. He’s praising her for her control of her sexuality. He isn’t pressuring her, piling on the guilt because she’s so tight, making her feel like she’s repressed. He’s thrilled that she doesn’t give herself to just anyone.
So here are these two people who are totally alive sexually and who can talk about it, who can express themselves to each other openly and honestly, and yet they aren’t at the mercy of their urges. They’re able to live on some higher plane. There is something guiding them that’s deeper and stronger than just their sexual urges.
15 Every woman should read Wendy Shalit’s Return to Modesty—every young woman should read that book, every parent should read it, every boyfriend should read it. It should be mandatory reading for . . . well . . . everybody.
16 Song of Songs 8:12.
17 The best article I’ve ever read on the passage in Ephesians 5 is called Balls and Chains, and it’s by Gordon Gano of the band Violent Femmes (Details, July 1993). I’ve also found the writings of Jean Kilbourne to be insightful, especially Can’t Buy Me Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel and Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising.
18 I heard Erwin McManus several years ago give a talk on being grateful that was very profound. It’s now out as a book called Uprising.
CHAPTER SEVEN: Under the Chuppah
1 Exodus 3.
2 For a brilliant and unabashedly hopeful look at how to end poverty, read Jeffrey Sach’s The End of Poverty.
3 The four promises in Exodus 6 are represented in the Passover meal by the drinking of four cups, which raises the question, When Jesus was having a Passover meal with his disciples (Matt. 26), which cup did he raise? For more on the meal, the cups, and their significance for Jesus and his followers, study the materials called Torah Club by First Fruits of Zion (ffoz.org).
4 The cloud appears in 1 Kings 8:10 at the dedication of the temple.
5 Exodus 19:5.
6 Verse 8.
7 Verses 10–11.
8 Verses 14–15.
9 Hosea 1–2.
10 Malachi 2:14.
11 Numbers 15:38.
12 Song of Songs 1.
13 Exodus 22:16.
14 Deuteronomy 22:28–29.
15 William Webb’s Slaves, Women, and Homosexuals is a systematic, detailed explanation of this truth about the Bible.
16 Gwyneth Paltrow on the breakup of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston: “ ‘It would have been a lot easier on Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston now if they had not talked to the press about each other and everything to begin with . . . I learned my lesson at 24.’ Paltrow, now married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, values her privacy. ‘Our marriage is between us,’ she says. ‘If we decide to continue being together or not, it’s our business’ ” (Vanity Fair, August 29, 2005).
17 Every couple thinking about getting married should read Sheldon Vanauken’s A Severe Mercy.
18 Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink deals extensively with thin slicing.
CHAPTER EIGHT: Johnny and june
1 Cash Unearthed box set book, page 27.
2 Genesis 2.
3 Genesis 2:18.
4 Psalm 121:1–2.
5 Psalm 89:19.
6 Genesis 2:23.
7 Verse 24. The man leaves? This is unusual. Generally the weaker leaves the parents and goes to the stronger. But Adam leaves his parents. Gilbert Bilezikian offers wonderful commentary on this in his book Beyond Sex Roles.
8 “Male and female are called to be one body and soul” (Talmud menachot 93a).
9 Genesis 2:24.
10 Dr. Rufus from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa did the research and gave me these numbers:
The English language: 100,000 to 200,000 words in the dictionary; 500,000 words total in the language; and together with technical words 1,000,000.
The Hebrew language: 7,000.
11 The word echad actually is quite complex, implying a unity with multiple parts. We speak of a team playing “as one,” a group of people discussing something as being “of one mind.” “One nation,” which can be made up of thousands or even millions of people.
12 Deuteronomy 6:4.
13 Christians traditionally break the Ten Commandments into two categories: commandments that deal with our relationship to God (the first four), and commandments that deal with our relationships with each other (the remaining six). Christians generally put the fifth commandment, honoring your parents, in the second category.
The ancient rabbis, however, don’t divide it this way. They put honoring your parents in the first set, making the division five and five. They saw that in creating new life, parents play a godlike role in the world. Their having sex has the potential to bring another human being, another soul, into existence. This is something only God can do—the creation of life—and God has given this ability to the man and the woman.
A man and a woman had sex and gave the world Nelson Mandela.
A man and woman had sex and gave us Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King Jr. and Albert Einstein.
And a man and woman had sex and gave us Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin and Pol Pot and thousands and millions of others who have affected the course of human history.
Sex is loaded with potential. With possibility. In some deeply mysterious way, the encounter between a man and a woman is loaded with the weight of the world. Who knows what this act of sex could create? Who knows who it could create?
Sex carries within it the power of life itself. It is not an isolated act with no consequences. There is always the possibility that human history will be significantly altered by what this man and this woman are about to do.
Something given by the creator of the universe. Something divine.
It isn’t just that they are “making love.” It’s that they may end up making something else.
Somebody else.
14 Genesis 2:25.
15 Psalms about heart (14:1) and spirit (77:6) and flesh (84:2).
16 Song of Songs 2:7.
17 From “Double the Pleasure: Treating His Sexual Woes Also Boosts Her Satisfaction,” by Brian Alexander (msnbc.com, November 10, 2005):
When Dr. Irwin Goldstein, a well-known expert in sexual medicine, presented recent research findings to a scientific meeting, he said: “It is rare for me to stand in front of an audience and say, ‘This is a manuscript that has changed my life.’ But this one has done that.”
At first glance the study, printed in the Journal of Sexual Medicine (edited by Goldstein), seems like the most obvious thing in the world. When you hear the results, you say to yourself, “Well, duh!”
The results showed that female sexual partners in committed relationships with men who were treated with an impotence drug (in this case Levitra, made by Bayer, which also sponsored the study) had better sex. That’s the “duh” part. But get this: the women’s bodies reacted as if they were receiving the drug, as if they were the ones being treated. So a drug they didn’t even take affected their bodies.
“Her physiology is linked to him,” Goldstein says. “Men share problems with women, and the solutions. . . . I can change someone’s physiology without treating them. It’s the wildest thing!”
There’s a concept in the world of physics called “entanglement.” It refers to the weird fact that subatomic particles have “partners”—other subatomic particles—with which they can be entangled, sometimes over great distances. If a physicist tinkers with one particle, the change affects the other particle. Strange but true.
I find Goldstein’s study a strong indicator that humans can be entangled, that the romantic ideal extolled by poets and Dr. Phil exists in real life. We really change when we fall in love. We become a unit, at least sexually. “There are no other physiologic abilities of men and women that are shared, and that is what is so fascinating about these data,” Goldstein says.
18 Have you observed people who have to have a radio on, the television on, or their iPod nearby? Are you one of those people? One of the reasons some have to always have noise and external stimulus is because they are terrified of the silence. The stillness. The present. If you stop and rest in the quiet, you will have to listen to what is going on inside of you. And this can be frightening.
Imagine a person who never listens to their own soul, who never sits in the silence with themselves, who is never naked with themselves. Imagine this person trying to become echad with another. How can a person mingle with another soul when they are out of touch with their own?
Ask yourself the following questions and write down whatever comes to mind. Get rid of your edit button. No one’s going to read this. You’ll throw it away afterward. Maybe.
But seriously, try this. Write out your answers to these questions:
What is frustrating me right now?
What am I angry about?
No, don’t go to the next one, go back. Listen. Reflect. Be honest. Give yourself time. The book will be here when you get back.
What am I scared of?
What am I dreading?
What am I anxious about?
What concerns me?
What is stressing me right now, the smallest thing that I don’t want to write down because it seems so dumb but it actually is stressing me?
What am I looking forward to?
Today, tomorrow, this year?
It’s amazing how many people do this exercise and discover that there are all sorts of things right below the surface that they weren’t aware of. It can be jarring to learn about yourself. To learn that all sorts of things are brewing on the inside that we’ve missed.
Now, if you’re with someone, if you’ve given yourself to another, how do you feel about sharing your list?
19 Watch the final scene in Pride and Prejudice (2005) when Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy meet in the field in the morning. What do they do? Or more precisely, what don’t they do? Why did the director close with that scene?
CHAPTER NINE: Whoopee Forever
1 Matthew 19:12.
2 Luke 20:34–36.
3 Verse 6.
4 1 Corinthians 7:7–9.
5 Verses 25–28.
6 Verses 28, 32–34, 39–40. An odd line, isn’t it? Someone who wrote a good portion of the New Testament saying that he thinks that he too has the “Spirit of God.”
7 Revelation 21:1–2. John actually got the “new heaven, new earth” part from the prophet Isaiah (chaps. 65–66).
8 Verse 22:3.
9 Verse 23.
10 Verse 27.
11 22:2.
12 Verse 3.
13 21:5.
14 If you are having any sort of “Woah!” moment, I suggest reading The Divine Romance by Gene Edwards.
15 See Ray Vander Laan and Judith Markham’s Echoes of His Presence.
16 Matthew 25:1–13.