good articles in GQ
Everyone should go out right now and buy the current issue of GQ. Alongside the good articles about suits for under $500 and why you'll never have a threesome, there's a funny, balanced, interesting article about Stephen Baldwin, which draws an excellent sketch of a rather shallow guy having a very real and sincere encounter with faith in Jesus Christ.
Then, in the same issue, there's a truly arresting article called "The Wronged Man," by Andrew Corsello. (Here's a snippet from it that lingered in my mind.) It's about a man who was falsely accused and imprisoned for raping a young girl, and it's about what that time did to him: even as it removed his sense of time and space and his competence in everyday things (like how to choose a shirt), it deepened his faith in Christ, and it caused his sympathies and patience to expand. It's a jaw-dropping account of how the gospel can infect a person and the lives around him.
Why do articles this good have to be in places like GQ? Why are the articles that are presumably about the same subject matter so insipid in Guideposts and Decision, and even Reader's Digest? Maybe it's because those magazines flatten out the experience of life, avoiding the cuss words, avoiding the rape scenes, avoiding that which God indeed saves us from.
On the other hand, why shouldn't these articles appear in a magazine like GQ? I'm glad that the average GQ reader is treated to up-close pictures of two saints of God, with all their faults, foibles, shallowness, grace, sincerity, and realness. Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy. You'll cast a vote for this kind of journalism, and you'll enrich your own sympathies.
And, you'll get a look at some really good suits under $500.
Then, in the same issue, there's a truly arresting article called "The Wronged Man," by Andrew Corsello. (Here's a snippet from it that lingered in my mind.) It's about a man who was falsely accused and imprisoned for raping a young girl, and it's about what that time did to him: even as it removed his sense of time and space and his competence in everyday things (like how to choose a shirt), it deepened his faith in Christ, and it caused his sympathies and patience to expand. It's a jaw-dropping account of how the gospel can infect a person and the lives around him.
Why do articles this good have to be in places like GQ? Why are the articles that are presumably about the same subject matter so insipid in Guideposts and Decision, and even Reader's Digest? Maybe it's because those magazines flatten out the experience of life, avoiding the cuss words, avoiding the rape scenes, avoiding that which God indeed saves us from.
On the other hand, why shouldn't these articles appear in a magazine like GQ? I'm glad that the average GQ reader is treated to up-close pictures of two saints of God, with all their faults, foibles, shallowness, grace, sincerity, and realness. Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy. You'll cast a vote for this kind of journalism, and you'll enrich your own sympathies.
And, you'll get a look at some really good suits under $500.
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