I\u2019m going to skim over a few pages here first,\u00a0because I really don\u2019t want to bore you.\u00a0We learn that Gordon has \u201cgotten desperate for cash again\u201d and has taken \u201cthe three to eleven shift at a 7-11 five blocks from his home.\u201d Farris tells us that Gordon buys \u201ctwo large bottles of beer\u201d after his shift each day and drinks both when he gets home. On this particular day, he stepped outside the door to get the newspaper\u2014I didn\u2019t realize he had a subscription given his relative poverty\u2014and began reading. Farris tells us he \u201cthoroughly devoured the newspaper every day,\u201d that he was \u201ca good student in high school,\u201d and that he \u201ccould discuss current events of Spokane or the nation with the best\u2014when he was sober.\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not completely sure what we\u2019re supposed to think of Gordon. Farris tells us that he was always bright and didn\u2019t have to work too hard to do well in school. He\u2019s clearly also well-read, and he reads the newspaper regularly even with a hangover (which Farris tells us he has). Here is Gwen\u2019s (earlier) description of why they separated and divorced:<\/p>\n
\u201cHe refused to get a real job and was always chasing some new idea that would supposedly produce big money overnight. But they were always pipe dreams. I wanted him to get a real job and he just wouldn\u2019t. We argued over it a lot. And finally, he moved out and sued me for divorce. A no fault divorce, obviously. Well, he\u2019s still chasing dreams, doesn\u2019t have a job, and now he\u2019s begun to drink heavily. He don\u2019ts pay his child support very often. He\u2019s just a mess.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Debi Pearl would probably say\u00a0Gordon\u00a0was a Mr. Visionary.\u00a0That aside, to\u00a0me, Gordon doesn\u2019t sound unredeemable. It sounds like he drinks because he lost his family, and he lost his family because he valued pipe dreams over getting a steady job. But if he\u2019s capable of taking a steady job at the 7-11, he ought to be capable of taking a steady job more in keeping with his abilities as well. Right? I point this out because Farris is obviously pushing Peter and Gwen together\u2014in spite of the fact that Gwen already said she\u2019s not ready to date again\u2014and\u00a0doing that while not portraying Gordon as a complete loser makes things\u00a0less than simple.<\/p>\n
As Gordon\u00a0read the newspaper his eye caught on a section covering newly filed court cases and he noticed one of the headlines: \u201cChild Abuse Search Challenged in Civil Rights Case.\u201d Gordon picked up the phone and called the clerk\u2019s office to ask about this case. The clerk couldn\u2019t tell him much, and simply explained that he could come to the office and get a copy of the case, and that he should get in touch with the lawyers involved to learn about when hearings are taking place. When Gordon said he\u2019d rather not contact the lawyers, the clerk, frustrated, suggested he get a lawyer himself, and told him that if he came to the office every two weeks to look at the hearing schedule he shouldn\u2019t miss any hearings.<\/p>\n
Farris never tells us why Gordon calls the clerk or what he\u2019s thinking, which is frustrating. We don\u2019t know whether he cares about the case because it involves Gwen or Casey and he cares about them, or whether he\u2019s concerned it will come out that he placed the anonymous tip to begin with. We do know that he doesn\u2019t want to call Peter to ask about it, but we don\u2019t know why\u2014and their previous contact\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0that<\/em>\u00a0bad.<\/p>\nThe next section is an explanation of how Gail Willet ends up involved in this new case. We\u2019re introduced to Matt Bartholomew, and I\u2019ll just be upfront and say that I have no idea what his office is or what he does. Farris tells us that he \u201chad been the Chief\u00a0Deputy\u00a0Prosecuting Attorney\u201d for five years, and then had had a falling out with his boss, but was able to find a position with \u201cthe Washington Attorney General\u2019s office\u201d as \u201cChief Deputy to run the Spokane Office.\u201d But later Farris tells us that the Spokane County Prosecuting Attorney, Charles Sexton, was willing to do him a favor because \u201cit would be better to have the former Chief Deputy Prosecutor and current Deputy Attorney General for Eastern Washington as a friend than as an opposing candidate.\u201d My takeaway is that Matt is with the Attorney General\u2019s office and is an important person in charge of defending the state when lawsuits are filed against state officers.<\/p>\n
The important bit is that Matt is tasked with defending the CPS office in this lawsuit, and he doesn\u2019t feel competent because he doesn\u2019t know much about child abuse law. Finally,\u00a0someone<\/em>\u00a0willing to admit that he\u2019s not competent in\u00a0every<\/em>\u00a0area of law! (*cough* Peter *cough*) So\u00a0Matt\u00a0calls Gail and asks her to do it. Gail is annoyed that Blackburn hasn\u2019t told her\u00a0about this case\u2014\u201cI\u2019m surprised these people didn\u2019t tell me. I was researching an appeal for them and was supposed to talk with them latter today\u201d\u2014but she\u2019s flattered by the idea of being given the title Special Assistant Attorney General, and she agrees to Matt\u2019s proposal that she take the case for them (they\u2019ll clear it with Charles Sexton, her boss, and cover part of her salary).<\/p>\nAnd now that we\u2019re done with that we can move on.<\/p>\n
Gwen was looking forward to her visit from Lynn Roberts on Wednesday morning. She found Lynn to be very personable when they spent twenty minutes in the counseling room after rate invitation on Sunday morning. Lynn had made good on her promise to call Gwen every day since Sunday. And Gwen and made good on her commitment to read three chapters from the Gospel of John.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Daily phone conversations sounds a bit excessive, but then this was in the days before the internet and Lynn clearly doesn\u2019t want to lose a new convert. Only reading three chapters of John seems odd, as the entire book of John is not that long and you\u2019d think a new convert would be eager to read the Bible, but okay.<\/p>\n
We learn that Lynn has finished homeschooling for the year\u2014it\u2019s the beginning of the summer\u2014and that she\u2019s left her children home for the morning, tasking\u00a0her\u00a0oldest son with watching his three younger siblings. Farris\u00a0feels the need to assure\u00a0us that, at fifteen, he was old enough enough to watch the younger ones. Lynn and Gwen sat at a table in the backyard while Casey played on the swing-set. I\u2019m suddenly curious why Lynn didn\u2019t bring her youngest to play with Casey. Maybe Farris didn\u2019t think of that.<\/p>\n
At first they exchanged small talk and life histories. Lynn later gave Gwen a Bible study book that Valley Fourth used in follow-up for all new believers. Gwen happily agreed to meet with Lynn once a week for\u00a0eight\u00a0sessions over the summer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And this is hugely important. If evangelicalism really were all about the Bible and the Bible alone, churches like Valley Fourth wouldn\u2019t need to make sure all of their new converts go through their Bible study book. But it\u2019s not. If you let someone read the Bible and the Bible and alone and ask them to lay out Christian theology and doctrine, you\u2019re going to have a problem. The book is at times confusing and often rambling and at many points directly contradictory. This is why we\u2019ve seen people\u00a0argue\u00a0over what Christianity means for nearly 2000 years, why Christian doctrine\u00a0and beliefs have\u00a0changed over time, and why even today there are thousands and thousands of different sects of Christianity. I mean for goodness sake, evangelicals\u2019 theory of atonement differs from\u00a0theories of atonement\u00a0held by the Christian church for well over a thousand years.<\/p>\n
When I was a girl I was encouraged to read the Bible for itself, but I also attended a Bible club called AWANA that laid out doctrine and cherry picked verses, which we then memorized, to support it. Unlike Catholicism, evangelicalism does not come with a catechism. Programs like AWANA\u2014and Bible studies like Lynn\u2019s\u2014take the place of that catechism. One would think, based on the way\u00a0evangelicals\u00a0talk about the Bible, Lynn could simply tell Gwen to read the Bible and let the Holy Spirit guide her in understanding it. But she doesn\u2019t, because of course she doesn\u2019t. She doesn\u2019t just want Gwen to be Christian, or a Christ follower, she wants Gwen to be\u00a0her specific brand<\/em>\u00a0of Christian, and a follower of Christ as\u00a0she<\/em>\u00a0views him. She wants to be able to correct Gwen if she starts going off the proper evangelical theological track. And that\u2019s important enough to point out loud and clear.<\/p>\nEventually, their talk came around to the subject of Peter Barron. Lynn brought him up first.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Oh good, it\u2019s relieving to know that Lynn, and not Gwen, brought him up first.<\/p>\n
Or something?<\/p>\n
Anyway, Lynn tells Gwen that Peter and her husband, Aaron, are best friends and that they meet for a weekly Bible study too. Convenient! Gwen asks why Peter still has to do Bible study when he\u2019s been a Christian for a long time, and Gwen tells him that \u201cwe never outgrow our need for studying God\u2019s Word, no matter how long we have been Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy . . . there\u2019s a lot to think about,\u201d Gwen said, a bit surprised.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Quick, someone tell her she\u2019s also going to have to give up taking Casey trick-or-treating, like, ever. And also that there\u2019s a no-cleavage dress code. And that wives are expected to obey their husbands and working moms are frowned on. And that she\u2019s very likely going to be pressured to homeschool. You know how TV adds for medicines always finish with huge lists of side effects? Conversion pitches need\u00a0lists like this\u00a0too.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo matter how many times I read or study a particular passage in the Bible, when I read it again, there is usually something new that God shows me to apply to the issues I am facing at that time,\u201d Lynn said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hey, you know what\u2019s cool? The same thing is true about tarot cards.<\/p>\n
And then there\u2019s this:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat passage in the Bible talks about marrying divorced women?\u201d Gwen asked suddenly.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoy, that\u2019s a question out of the blue. Why do you ask that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, the first time Peter and I met, he told me that I didn\u2019t have to worry about him because he was a Christian, and he believed he wasn\u2019t supposed to marry a divorced woman,\u201d Gwen replied.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is a very strange thing for him to say. Why did he bring that up?\u201d Lynn asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a long story. And it\u2019s not totally strange. I had another lawyer before Peter. He made an extremely crude pass at me, and I was leaning on Peter\u2019s car crying about that\u2014not to mention I had just lost Casey a half-hour earlier\u2014when I first met Peter. That whole story came out in the course of our conversation, and I think Peter wanted to reassure me that he was genuinely different from that first jerky attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAll right. That makes a bit more sense,\u201d Lynn said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
No, no it doesn\u2019t. You want to know how Peter could have assured Gwen that he was different? He could have assisted her in reporting her previous lawyer\u2019s actions to the bar right then and there\u2014something he\u00a0still<\/em>\u00a0hasn\u2019t done\u2014and assured her that he takes his profession\u2019s ethical codes very seriously. Except that he doesn\u2019t. Because if he\u00a0did<\/em>, he wouldn\u2019t have blackmailed her previous lawyer into violating clearly established rules by turning over her records without any statement from her that he should do so, and he wouldn\u2019t have had dinner at her house or invited her to church with him\u00a0when she\u2019s his client<\/em>.<\/p>\nI mean seriously.<\/em><\/p>\nAnyway, Lynn tells Gwen that she\u2019s going to have to do some study on\u00a0what the Bible says about divorce\u2014because, she says, it says a lot on the topic\u2014and get back to her on that.\u00a0She\u00a0promises to give her \u201ca full answer\u201d the following week. I guess this really is pre-internet. Today all you\u2019d have to do is pull up a web browser and type \u201ceverything the Bible says about divorce.\u201d But then I guess you\u2019d have to make sure that any website synthesizing these verses was doing so from your sect\u2019s perspective, because this is one area where the Bible is contradictory and where there\u00a0is\u00a0more than one interpretation.<\/p>\n
But wait! Gwen has more to say:<\/p>\n
\u201cI assure you that Peter has been a perfect gentleman the whole time. But . . . \u201d She changed her mind and didn\u2019t complete her sentence.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut what?\u201d Lynn asked. \u201cYou can feel free to talk with me. I won\u2019t tell Peter anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, it\u2019s just that Peter has said and done some things that normally I would interpret as suggesting that he was interested in me as a woman, and not just as a client,\u201d Gwen answered. \u201cI really can\u2019t give you specifics. It\u2019s just something I sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you feel about that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, it confuses me. I think Peter is absolutely wonderful. The way he got Casey back won me as a lifetime client. There are many other things I like about him as well. And the other night, he was here with my parents for a dinner celebrating our victory in court when Casey had a nightmare. He swept Casey up in his arms and rocked her to sleep in a way that really touched me. He\u2019s a really great guy. But I guess he feels he can\u2019t be interested in me because I\u2019m divorced. I\u2019m really confused.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So, I\u2019m a big Jane the Virgin fan, and,\u00a0SPOILER\u00a0ALERT!<\/p>\n
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In last week\u2019s episode, Jane is in graduate school and got the idea that her advisor might possibly be interested in her, and she was very definitely interested in\u00a0him. When she got her signals crossed and tried to kiss him\u2014awkward<\/em>\u2014he immediately told her that as her adviser, anything of the sort was inappropriate and could get him in a lot of trouble,\u00a0period<\/em>. Jane found it difficult to relate to him as her advisor after that, because she was so embarrassed, so she decided to switch to a different advisor. And you know what? As soon as she did, her\u00a0no-longer-advisor asked her out. That is how it\u2019s done, ladies and gentlemen.<\/p>\n.<\/p>\n
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Okay, so my point is this: Peter needs to either (a) stop sending mixed messages, STAT, and that means no more going to Gwen\u2019s house or\u00a0going to church with her, or (b) pass her case off to another (potentially more qualified) lawyer and ask her out already. Of course, (b) would require Peter to change some of his religious doctrine. But now that I think about it, there\u2019s also (c) pass her case off to another (potentially more qualified) lawyer and get out of her life, since he\u2019s already said he can\u2019t marry her and he\u2019s now only toying with her, and it\u2019s really too late for him to be able to be her lawyer in an ethical way. Because frankly, the chance for (a) has passed. Now that Gwen\u2019s converted, she\u2019s going to be at his church, and they already have this history of him sending her these messages.<\/p>\n
Peter, for god\u2019s sake,\u00a0what are you doing?!<\/em><\/p>\nOh, and also this:<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the other night, he was here with my parents for a dinner celebrating our victory in court when Casey had a nightmare. He swept Casey up in his arms and rocked her to sleep in a way that really touched me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I\u2019m sorry, but I found that moment creepy and way overstepping boundaries, and I wasn\u2019t the only one to feel that way. It\u2019s not like Peter was the only one in the house, and he wasn\u2019t any closer to Casey than the other\u00a0three adults<\/em>\u00a0in the house. I would be creeped out if I were having desert with my parents and my lawyer, and my\u00a0lawyer<\/em>\u00a0ran to comfort my crying child\u00a0in my kid\u2019s bedroom<\/em>. Like, if the kid takes a tumble and there\u2019s no one else in the room at that moment? Sure. But that\u2019s not at all what we\u2019re talking about, and it suggests that Farris\u2019s creep-meter is completely broken (as, apparently, is Gwen\u2019s).<\/p>\nAnyway, Lynn tells Gwen that God forgives everything and that \u201cdivorced people are not second-class Christians.\u201d She says she\u2019ll have a full answer on the divorce issue the following week and Gwen says \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to learning, and you are so nice to teach me.\u201d Does anyone actually talk like that?<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll still call every day for a couple of minutes of that\u2019s OK.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSure. I look forward to your calls.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Gwen needs more friends. I mean honestly, have we ever met a single one of Gwen\u2019s friends, or even heard them mentioned? No. It\u2019s just Gwen and Casey and her parents and her ex. No wonder Gwen looks forward to Lynn\u2019s calls.<\/p>\n
Farris tells us that Lynn prays for Gwen and Casey as she leaves, and also that she \u201cprayed silently that she would figure out how to answer this difficult question about Peter and divorce before next Wednesday.\u201d Yeah, good luck with that.<\/p>\n
And there you have it. Bible study day 1.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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