I read yesterday that you should spend New Year’s Day doing what you want to do all year. Yesterday I met my writing goal: I completed a complete draft of the analysis section for the chapter I’m co-writing. Hopefully, this year I will continue to meet writing goals. Today’s goals: begin drafting my 2010 self-evaluation, and start composing syllabi for the spring semester.

This morning’s cup is helping me think through a debate on my Facebook. Yesterday I Tweeted “Number of gays Jesus condemned in the Bible: zero.” This irritated one of my church friends, and she posted a rebuttal. Her rebuttal irritated one of my non-church friends, and he challenged her position. Now they’re going at it on my wall.

My post was motivated by Christians who use their faith to condemn gays. I figure if you are going to model your life after Christ, you should look to the Gospels for examples of Jesus’ character. He was more likely to condemn the “righteous,” and it’s the “righteous” today who are using their faith to condemn gays. If you want to be like Jesus, it seems you would do better than to commit your energies condemning gays.