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Contentment in an age of excess

Lexington, Ky.-based authors Will and Lisa Samson, who last teamed up on an enlightening and challenging book called Justice in the Burbs, have a new book coming out this week called Enough: Contentment in an Age of Excess. Like the their previous collaboration, the title sounds pretty self-explanatory: In an age of conspicuous consumption, where children worry more […]

Quotation: Moral instruction

“In our highly sexualized world, we have forgotten that the bulk of moral instruction that comes from scripture does not relate to who you sleep with or what happens in the event of an unwanted pregnancy.” -Will Samson, co-author of Justice in the Burbs: Being the Hands of Jesus Wherever You Live. This quotation is […]