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FWIW, you hint your experience with Christianity Today long ago was less than positive, and I hope you don't find this reply to your post that way.

Not at all, but I may have given the wrong impression that I am or was a spiritual seeker. Never have been, being fully satisfied with the faith my parents gave me. I've just always been a person who reads at least a little about a whole lot of subjects, and just meant to say that Christine Scheller is a memorable and wonderful writer for several reasons, although mine wouldn't exactly be the same ones Christian readers might focus on.

Not at all, but I may have given the wrong impression that I am or was a spiritual seeker. Never have been, being fully satisfied with the faith my parents gave me.

Having parents that provide the background for a sustaining faith is a blessing indeed. Not all of us enter this interesting and testing world so equipped.

You didn't answer my questions, so I guess I know what that means. Which is fine, of course.

But allow me to suggest this for your future posts. When a thread has direct references to Christ, especially on this abortion issue, and someone posts a Jewish self reference, and intimates non-Christian affiliation, while at the same time stating something which infers that you affirm the Christain faith .... it sends a signal that you are indeed seeking.

It could be you inwardly scoff at this, thinking I'm great at inferring what I hope to see. I'm not immune from the effects of optimism.

Given that, taken together, your post and your reply to my response ring oddly. Any post, of any stripe, often has some kind of invitation 'to comment'. Your reply now indicates you were not intending to receive comments similar to mine.

Perhaps you were meaning to indicate what your words indicate ... the source of hope is 'good' people like Christine. For your sake, everyone else notwithstanding, I hope I'm wrong.

So, I'll leave it at this - why your post included the Jewish self reference coupled with the 'hope' comment I don't understand. Why you posted it at all, I understand even less. But, so be it.