
You may be wondering what all this history has to do with religion. Well, the Chinese have a saying, or at least I think they do: “If you want to know about water, don’t ask a fish.”
Because we swim in today’s cultural waters, we often have little objective sense of what defines that culture, what it stands for, and, more critically, how it came to be.
Which is to say we give little thought as to why we function the way we do. In such a climate, it’s easy to forget that our culture’s values and norms are not necessarily the same as, say, Christianity’s. And that’s the rub. Continue reading “From Buzz Cuts to Man Buns”