Leaving behind us for a moment all of the wearied and wheel-rutted arguments for and against “modesty” and all of the recent condemnations of “purity culture” I want to consider, if only in passing on this Monday morning, the nature of “the veil” —by which I mean here anything drawn across the body in order to give it a glory and a covering.
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The singers of the Song of Solomon proclaim that “love is stronger than death” (Songs 8:6). It is precisely this quality that makes love what it is. Love is the things that is capable of laying-down its life for the beloved and then rising again.
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