The Fingerless Lady<\/em>, the smiley kindergarten teacher who represents tolerance (no finger-pointing, get it?). She tells the classic story of everyone\u2019s path up the mountain (in this case Seattle\u2019s Mt. Rainier) being about the same, and personified ideas like Conflict is Always Horrible and The Wisdom of That Which Is Poetic nod their heads vigorously.
\nLike the others in the series, the strength of Everts\u2019 approach is its promotion of self-awareness \u2013 his naming scheme encourages us to know what schools of thought are influencing our mental process. But labeling as a habit usually endangers the conversation via over-simplification and this is precisely where Everts\u2019 falls short. Roadblocks thrown up by \u201cExistentialism\u201d (\u201crocks are rocks\u2026 and why should reality about God be different?\u201d) only make Lady Tolerance sullen and repeat her point louder. Subsequent arguments about pedophiles being in the wrong stop her cold. She can\u2019t seem to conjure up even simplified retorts using Berger\u2019s social constructionism or Saussure\u2019s linguistic suspicion. In the end, she winds up being a straw woman, easily trampled by the genial Old Man who reads passages from scripture explaining Jesus\u2019.
\nI\u2019d give Everts more credit had he given The Fingerless Lady a bit more. Where is the necessary discussion of power or a chastened epistemology that acknowledges perspective even in special revelation? At the end of the day, it\u2019s clear Everts had kicked the Lady out of the living room before she arrived and is not much the wiser for it.
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: One Guy\u2019s Musings About Tolerance<\/em>. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2007.