Sex in the City

Sex in the City
Deuteronomy 22: 13-30

I’ve been reading a book that interweaves the story of three iconic 1960s singer-songwriters—Carole King, Carly Simon, and Joni Mitchell. The key to Joni Mitchell’s life story and music is something that happened when she was a teenager and that has haunted her ever since. She got pregnant, and in the social and cultural context of the Canada of her youth, it was absolutely essential and inescapable that her parents should find a way of her having the baby in secret and then surrender it for adoption. “Ever since then,” a friend has said, “she’s never really been able to live with herself.” She wrote a song about the baby that virtually no one was able to interpret when she finally recorded it, long after she wrote it. Eventually, after more than thirty years, she found her daughter...