avoiding the appearance of evil

It is against my nature to desire accountability.
I don’t want someone looking over my shoulder and saying, “You shouldn’t be doing that.”
“I know it’s wrong, and I’ll justify my beliefs, regardless of what the Bible has to say.”
“It’s how I am, and a lot of other people think the same way.”
“You’re not my mother!”
“I thought [...]

“What about the Inquisition?”

A friend of mine emailed this article from Dennis Prager, who teaches Torah at Hebrew University in LA, and has a talk radio program from 9-12 in the San Diego area. The motto for his show is “clarity, not agreement”. I thought this article, (from August 19, 2008,) spoke in a timely [...]