How (not) to speak the truth in love
By 
Chris Llewellyn2022-05-31T14:34:00
There’s a sentence that sounds to my ears like the removal of a pin from a grenade, sending me scrambling for cover and bracing for a doctrinal explosion: “I just have to speak the truth in love.”
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