An Inconvenient Christianity

First of all, let me say greetings to all of you out there. I have been MIA for an unreasonably long time. No excuses. My apologies. Enough of that. I have something to say... There is a program on TLC called A Wedding Story . It follows couples as they get ready for their much-anticipated wedding. You get the individual backgrounds on the bride and groom. They tell you how they met and how the proposal happened. And we, the viewing audience of insatiable voyeurs, watch as they prepare to saw their vows. What I find interesting is the difference between how the brides prepare themselves and how the grooms prepare. Months before the wedding, the brides hire personal trainers and go on strict diets. They have appointments for dress fittings and cake tastings, etc. On the day of the wedding, there is a series of beauty treatments including, hair styling, mani/pedis, waxing, eyebrow arching makeup applications and on and on and on and on. Interspersed through the scenes of the bride...