we go through people's lives and check off what we think is right and what we think is wrong, with often little understanding of the deeper reasons for the action, the human needs and emotions, and limita tions, and the problems that are there which may have prompted these doings. In this play, for ex ample, one of the male characters had a sad marriage, having lost their only child in an auto acci dent, which same accident disfig ured his wife — all this the wife blamed him for bitterly. The wo man with whom he had finally be come involved was also unhappily married. Yes, the plot of the story was based on an immoral conclu sion, but the human drama, the
By MRS. WILLIAM BAKER Reprint from VOICE Magazine, February, 1972 The other night my husband Bill and I watched a TV program, a rather stirring film regarding the tangled lives of four people, and at the end of the program we be gan to be critical and to say, "There was immorality, and there was adultery, and there was sin in the movie from beginning to end —" and then, all of a sudden, we stopped ourselves and thought about these lives as individuals, about the reasons behind the "sin," the unhappiness of those involved, and we realized that we do what so many Christians do — we make a check-list of right and wrong and
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