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It was not Paul's worldly status and gifts that resulted in Corinthian faithfulness, but his weakness.

This film about a couple struggling to cope with the death of their little boy has a limited imaginative reach. But the familiar can wield considerable power when the writing is honest and specific.

The eulogies go on and on, the bereaved helping to anoint the saint. But then the eulogizers go home, leaving the bereaved to mourn someone whose life contained shadows as well as sunshine.

Just as loving mercy is a means to doing justice, so is walking humbly with God. Yet in the sexuality debates raging in the mainline church, humility is seldom easy to find. Both sides cling to the fiction that they harbor gospel truth.

It is a huge irony that I ended up as pastor to so many recovering alcoholics. But recovering is the key word here.