Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be

With Lent underway, I've been revisiting Cornelius Plantinga's Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin. It sounds like a downer; trust me, it's not. As Plantinga writes, God created the world for shalom – "universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight... the way things ought to be." Sin, then, is "culpable shalom-breaking." This isn't fire-and-brimstone judgmentalism, nor is it wishy-washy moralism. It's good medicine.