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Block Quote from Jn 3:12–21 in Wuest NT

    Since I told you concerning the things which have to do with the earth, and you are not believing, how is it possible, if I tell you about the things which have to do with heaven, that you will believe? And no one has ascended into heaven except He who came down out from heaven, the Son of Man.

    And just as Moses elevated the snake in the uninhabited region, in like manner is it necessary in the nature of the case for the Son of Man to be lifted up, in order that everyone who places his trust in Him may be having life eternal. For in such a manner did God love the world, insomuch that His Son, the uniquely-begotten One, He gave, in order that everyone who places his trust in Him may not perish but may be having life eternal. For God did not send off His Son into the world in order that He might be judging the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.

    He who places his trust in Him is not being judged. He who is not believing, has been judged already, and is as a result under judgment, because he has not put his trust in the Name of the uniquely-begotten Son of God, with the result that he is in a state of unbelief. And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the universe and is here, and men loved rather the darkness than the light, for their works were pernicious. For everyone who practices evil things hates the light, and does not come and face up to the light lest his works be effectually rebuked. But he who habitually does the truth comes and faces up to the light in order that his works might be clearly shown to have been produced by God

Appendix/Bibliography

Wuest, K. S. (1961). The New Testament: an expanded translation (Jn 3:12–21). Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.

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Was the Nuclear Family a Mistake? - Answering David Brooks

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New York Times columnist David Brooks made waves last week with an essay published in the Atlantic. Brooks' point is simple: What we call "the nuclear family," a mother, a father, and their 2.5 children, often in a suburban home with a single income, is an invention of the 20th century. It's not what the family looked like for most of history. Instead, writes Brooks, humans have typically existed in multi-generational networks of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins supporting one another. The "extended family," he argues, is the natural family. The key here is context. Brooks admits the nuclear family has always existed, but without an extended circle of relatives, he thinks it's unstable. History seems to back him up. The 1950s, he writes, were the "high water mark" of the nuclear family. But as the 50s economy and mass unionization became things of the past, nuclear families fragmented into ever smaller forms, with single-parent homes now being the most common. Among the important points made by Brooks is that, certainly by the time American culture had absorbed the full impact of the sexual revolution, the American family had already been substantially transformed by industrialization and other forces of modernity, not least of which is the widespread separation of work from home. Unfortunately, the title of Brooks' essay is, well, terrible. To lead with "The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake" muddies the waters. Even muddier is Brooks' suggestion that alternative forms of kinship, which he calls "chosen families," are legitimate replacements for the nuclear family, with the only criteria for their success being that they are chosen. And so, he praises networks of shared parenting in such places as African-American neighborhoods with low rates of fatherhood, same-sex and polyamorous arrangements in LGBTQ communities, and even groups of friends living together to support one another. What Brooks misses is that all of these things are attempts to mitigate the situations caused when families break. They are not replacements. As noble as some of these attempts are, the outcomes for those involved in "chosen families," especially outcomes related to the long-term health and well-being of children, are consistently worse than they are for those in nuclear families. CONTINUE READING →

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