Editor’s note: Modern Verses is contributed by Michael Strubler. It in no way reflects the views of The Pulse, it’s staff or Spring Arbor University.

This is for you. What happens next?

Matthew 21:13
“It is [disregarded] written,” he said to them, “My [multi-million dollar mansion that obviously needs renovation] house will be called a [‘church’ since we are considered a non-profit business by the United States government] ‘house of prayer,’ but you are making it a [comfortable bunker with a coffee shop and bookstore] ‘den of robbers.’”

“ ‘Athens is like a sluggish horse…and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.’”
           – Socrates
(“What do we do with gadflies, Sophie?”)
           – Sophie’s World, Jostein Gaardner