A kid loading up his cafeteria tray with pasta salad, Jell-O, two kinds of bread, lasagna, fish, and three desserts—only to end up with half of it uneaten and a stomach ache. Stephen Davey uses that memory to introduce what he calls the spiritual art of refusal: learning what not to argue about. He walks through four things Paul tells Titus to flatly avoid—pointless controversies, genealogies, strife, and legal disputes—and tosses in some genuinely bizarre ancient rabbinical legends about Noah's ark along the way. His point lands hard: you can win an argument and still walk away with nothing to show for it. What's actually worth putting on your plate?
Learning the Art of Refusal (Part 2)
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