Emphasis Preaching Journal

There is a scene in Tennessee Williams' play, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, in which Big Daddy and his son, Brick, are talking in the basement, surrounded by all the junk that Big Daddy has worked so hard to purchase over the years. Brick is exploring questions of meaning far too sensitive for his father, who is pretty miserable, to understand. In the course of the conversation, he looks at all the stuff in the basement and asks a deeply theological question: "Big Daddy, why'd you buy all this junk?"