You can’t become fully human and avoid gender, sexuality, money, politics, orientation, ecology, history, literature, economics, philosophy, etc. You cannot be a disciple of Jesus and protect pieces of your soul from his touch.   Jonalyn Fincher If you call yourself a follower of God, a disciple of Jesus, then you must allow yourself to observe all that this broken world has.  Jesus allowed himself to be confronted with the hard things of the time so that he could speak truth into those things.  As his disciples that is what he asks us to do as well.  To observe hard things doesn't mean we agree with them.  Jesus observed hard things and then spoke truth into them.  He didn't shrink back from hard things, he didn't protect his soul from the things and people that kept him from being fully human.  (Remember he was fully God but fully human as well.)  If we want to be called and known as  disciples  of Jesus then we have to be willing to...