are a sensitive spirit with much grounding in the Word. Here's where I would encourage you and where the work of speaking truth gets really difficult: you cannot throw out some scriptures to lift up others. All the scriptures you have lifted up are worthy of honor and should govern our discourse. Ephesians 5:3 says "There should not be a hint of sexual sin among you for this is improper for God's holy people." A HINT! This holy scripture leads to Ephesians 5:31,32 which affirms marriage as a picture of the greatest spiritual truth that exists: there is a Savior who loves his Bride (the Church) deeply. If we do not protect this picture, we will one day wake up to see the gospel erased. Here's something really cool: Ephesians 5:4 reads "Let there be no filthiness or foolish talk nor crude joking which are out of place but instead let there be thanksgiving." Oh, how thorough the Word is! As you are sensing, our language must be tender and kind. It must also be clean. Reading a book like Fifty Shades of Grey exposes you to "filthiness", "crude" language, and there is much "foolish talk" in the defense of it. We can't through out these verses. But you are correct that we must allow our discourse to be filled with kindness. This conrtroversy over a fictional book reminds me a lot of that that arose from the Harry Potter series. Harry Potter, as many of you know, brought up