The Gideons are on campus today. I think they do a great thing—I am, of course, in favor of as many people having access to the Bible as possible—but I always wonder why they look so wounded and/or offended when they offer me a Bible and I say, “I’ve got one already,” or, if I’m feeling overdisclosurely (yes, I invented that word), “I’ve got several and I’m a Christian.” But, in my experience, the fact that I have a Bible (or several) and the fact that I am a Christian does nothing to dispell the hurt/offended look, and indeed sometimes exacerbates it. Isn’t it a good thing that I want them to have more Bibles to give out to people who don’t have them? It’s almost like they’re saying, “Hey, we’re on the same team—act like it!” But I think I am acting like it, by allowing others to get the Bible I may have needlessly taken. I don’t know; it’s just on my mind.