The Christian mother screams at her children again, saying things that will mark them for life. But when she has calmed down, she takes them out for ice cream and buys them toys to make up for her failure. The teenager who cuddles with his parents on the couch is capable, within the hour, of saying things about them the devil himself is too mannerly to say. While most people notice the evil in what these people are doing, I am just as intrigued by their good. “When I want to do good,” said Paul,
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