William on tattoos

His advice, hitchhiking off this First Things piece:

For what it's worth, I want to tentatively suggest that, instead of getting a tattoo, you could learn the particularities of your own geographic place, the doctrines of your denomination, the hopes and dreams of your ancestors. Don't just have a religion, but become a part of a church (or other religious community). In other words, don't just get an arbitrary marker of a self-constructed or desired identity. Get an actual, you know, identity.