By Jon Lee Anderson August 5, 2016 For all the iniquities involved in staging the Olympics, the Games are still a chance to lay bare untended issues in our societies.
Of course, a major temptation onstage is to confess one's own private villainy, the villainy of the actor attempting to come to terms with all the iniquities within the profession.
"The more I read and the more I get inspired by other women artists, the more I realize of the importance of being angry and taking action towards all those iniquities".
From the evangelical point of view, our words must be well pleasing to the Lord Jesus Christ who purchased us with His own blood "that He might redeem us from all iniquity [lawlessness] and purify unto Himself a peculiar people [a people of His own], zealous of good works" (Titus 2 14).
In the center of all this iniquity lies a story that defies physics.
The healing of the body is perhaps the greatest of the proven miracles; in Psalm 103, it is the Lord "who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases".
The pay gap, the carer gap, the maternity drain, all the ossified iniquities that fence women into hardship.
Not only wrong, but in their wrongness, helping to cover their joint iniquities, all the while engaging in simultaneous embrace and fingerpointing to convey the illusion of debate and choice.
Not only wrong, but in their wrongness, helping to cover their joint iniquities, all the while engaging in simultaneous embrace and fingerpointing to convey the illusion of seriousness and choice.
And herein, perhaps, lies the promising paradox: for all the iniquities entailed in bringing them about, the Olympics are still a chance to lay bare and highlight those other, untended issues in our societies.
