life. We are told that we change spiritually by having the categories of our minds renewed (Rom 12:1–2), that we are to include an intellectual love for God in our devotion (Matt 22:37–38), and that we are to be prepared to give others a reasonable answer to questions they ask us about why we believe what we believe (1 Pet 3:15). As the great eighteenth-century Christian thinker and spiritual master William Law put it, “Unreasonable and absurd ways of life … are truly an offense to God.”3 Now learning