The Pretty Tents of Wickedness

If you’re a Christian, there’s a particular passage that should shape your social life. It’s in Psalm 84:10-11, and it reads:

“For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD bestows favor and honor: no good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.”

It’s easy enough to reject the uglier “tents of wickedness,” but we may find it h...