1. Johan Maurer worries we get too much pleasure from being peculiar

    But corruption occurs when we begin to forget the “why” of our folkways and let them become filters that totally contradict the extraordinary wave of God’s power that originally formed us as a community, and ought to be continuing to form us—from the full range of human variety! Our distinctive teachings are only “peculiar” because we’ve not gone far enough in making them available to all.