Tilting at the Windmills of Culture

Overview In his great literary classic, Miguel de Cervantes gave us a wonderfully comedic picture of the legendary Don Quixote, who was a romantic in an age when Enlightenment logic was taking over the world. He was chivalrous at a time when individualism was robbing graciousness from society. He was an oddball who couldn't see or hear well and was ridiculed as an out-of-touch misfit. But when he dreamed of doing great deeds, was he wrong? Were his exploits mere madcap, or was Cervantes trying to tell us something about ourselves? Is there a way to be a "fool for Jesus" that allows us to be prophetic without becoming either lost in the whirlwinds of our time or defeated into Christian isolationism? Frederica Mathewes-Green explores this in her article "Loving the Storm Drenched." Table of Contents SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 40:15–24; Matthew 5:1–16; Romans 13:1–7; Galatians 5:22–23; Philippians 2:12–16a; Colossians 1:9–17 LEADER'S GUIDE • Identify the Current Issue • Discover the Eternal Princi