It’s a Last Resort But They Save Precious Lives: Safe Haven Drop Boxes as a Parable of Our Age

R. Albert Mohler Jr,. The Briefing, Albertmohler.com Aug. 28, 2022

Another great article and challenge. All lives matter. -efd

It’s a Last Resort But They Save Precious Lives: Safe Haven Drop Boxes as a Parable of Our Age

Intense and immense pressure produces a certain kind of clarity. That’s true in physics, it’s true in politics, it’s true in morality. Probably true in your own experience, just in terms of relationships and conversation, pressure often clarifies.

Under the current cultural pressure of a society, largely tearing itself apart at the most basic level of moral reality, we are looking at the fact that some stories erupt, some issues happen and they are incredibly clarifying.

Now, clarifying is not necessarily just a positive or a negative issue. Sometimes what is clarified is very haunting. Sometimes what is clarified is very encouraging. What is clarified under pressure may at times turn out to be a lie, other times a truth, but as we’re thinking about it, it is the Christian responsibility to know the one from the other, and sometimes a …