It was time, as the apostle Paul said to the Corinthians, to put aside childish things.
1 Corinthians 13:11. "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." This is actually one of my favorite chapters (and my favorite verse) from the Bible, not because I am religious (I am not), but because it encapsulates my awareness of life. My favorite stories are always coming-of-age tales, the Bildungsroman, and are almost always about the painful rightness of leaving childhood behind. Chapter 13 of 1 Corinthians actually discusses the Greek concept of agape, a universal love unbound to romantic, familial, or friendly attachment. It is a selfless sort of love, and one that did not intentionally set out to explore in the book, but made its way into the pages nonetheless.
People have asked me why I chose to make my characters so obviously Christian in this book, especially when I'm a heathen myself. And the answer is that the church was part of every aspect of life in the Old World, to the point of mundanity.
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