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Welcome to Crossings!
The old ladies of Arsenic and Old Lace would fit in well in any church in modern western culture. They're rich, sweet, unfailingly generous to charities...and they have 'helped' 12 older gentleman to attain their final peace. While they gladly admit to this most unusual of charities they otherwise have an unusually strong sense of moral values. They are on a first name basis with the police department, take food to the poor, are loyal to (and protective of) the members of their family, and they would never stoop to telling a fib. They are, in fact, blissfully unaware of the depth of their own depravity.
As Christians in the United States we are exceptionally talented at turning sin into a hierarchy. We organize sins in order of 'wrongness' and tend to place the sins we don't struggle with toward the top of the bad list while making excuses for our own choices because they're 'not as bad' as what other people do. We look at the behavior of others and (sometimes rightly) call it wrong, forgetting that our own hearts are also filled with sin and without the constant grace and favor of God we too are capable of the worst offenses humanity can commit.
As believers we need to be more reliant on the active working of God in our lives to mold us into the likeness of Christ. We must be ruthless with the sin entangled in our own hearts and view it with more repulsion than that we see in others. We must pursue holiness rather than goodness and fall into God as we inevitably fail in this pursuit. We will never attain perfection but ultimately find our hope in God alone. Until then...
Enjoy the show!
Angela Lux
Arsenic and Old Lace
is presented through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.
440 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212-683-8960 Fax: 212-213-1539
www.Dramatists.com/
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