What I was learning was that the women’s movement and the sexual revolution in the early 1970s were two separate movements. Betty Friedan had started the women’s movement. She’d launched it with the 1963 book The Feminine Mystique. She had called Cosmo quite obscene and quite horrible. She said Cosmo denied a woman’s personhood. She was very opposed to the sexual revolution. Helen Gurley Brown would have loved for her sex revolution magazine to be part of the women’s movement, but, as I say, Betty Friedan thought it was quite obscene and quite horrible and even called for a boycott of the magazine at one point.

People come to a church plant with less reservations or wondering if they will be accepted. Even though most – at least many – established churches would welcome them just as easily. I know ours will – thankfully. But, perception can be a huge front door barrier. I’ve stated numerous times in our established church – sometimes the steeple can be the biggest hindrance. Don’t misunderstand, I love and appreciate our building and the opportunities it affords us as a church. I even love our steeple, and I’m thankful for the sacrifices of those who built it long before I arrived. There is great tradition and symbolism involved. But, there is something about the rawness of a church with no building, meeting in a high school, theater or rented storefront, which invites people who don’t feel they “fit in” a traditional church setting.

Hindus around the world are wondering whether Sri Srinivasan — the name atop many a list of potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees — will be the first Hindu to serve on the high court.

The India-born Srinivasan put his hand on the Hindu holy book, the Bhagavad Gita, held by his mother, when he was sworn in to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2013. The Senate had confirmed him to the court — often a launching pad to the Supreme Court — by a 97-0 vote.

Now the Times of India, The Hindu and other Indian newspapers — as well as scores of American legal pundits — are speculating that Srinivasan could be Obama’s nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, whose death was announced Saturday (Feb. 13).

Imagine two simple scenarios.

1. You’re standing at a coworker’s desk. A simple conversation ensues. “Did you hear about–?” No, you hadn’t heard. Suddenly, a wave of insecurity wells up inside of you. A fear of some kind is driving it. Learn to instantly identify it.Trade it in for trust.

2. You’re at a crowded restaurant with your man. While waiting for an available table, he and a woman you’ve never met greet each other enthusiastically. She turns out to be a coworker you’ve heard him mention here and there. You had no idea she looked like that. Suddenly, a wave of insecurity wells up inside of you. A fear of some kind is driving it. Learn to instantly identify it. Trade it in for trust.

Many Christian testimonies have dramatic conversion scenes with a clear break from the darkness of the past and the light of God’s kingdom. Lecrae’s story is messier. Even after his conversion, Lecrae falls back into the patterns of his old life. Much of his promiscuity and drug use occur after coming to Christ, including the darkest and saddest moment of the memoir.

Through struggle and heartache, rebirth and rehab, Lecrae finally grows into his identity as a Christian artist. Yet even here he encounters setbacks, including wrong motivation behind his obedience. He labels his misplaced zeal for the Lord as the period when he was “legalistic Lecrae” – the self-righteous opposite of his previous prodigal lifestyle.

The book ends with Lecrae as an outsider to the Christian music industry. His bridge-building between the church and the world leaves him feeling like he doesn’t fit in anywhere. Relying on the worldview thinking of Francis Schaeffer and other writers who believe there is no sacred/secular divide, Lecrae makes a case for art infused with his Christianity even when not explicitly mentioning it. By the end, Lecrae has embraced this outsider tension, confident in becoming the hip-hop artist who is a Christian “but doesn’t fit inside a box.”