One of our members sent me a link to this article, “Stop Sugarcoating the Bible,” by Stephen James. In it James writes of all the unvarnished content in the Bible and argues that we need to stop trying to sanitize it. He says, “God is much more interested in honesty than pietism.” I think he’s right, and it’s interesting that the examples he gives aren’t even (in my opinion) some of the roughest parts of the Bible.