"A.J. Jacobs is the senior editor at Esquire magazine. Over a year ago he decided to follow the rules of the Bible to the letter. For example, the Bible says a man should refrain from trimming the edges of his beard.

So Jacobs didn't shave. His beard got caught in zippers, got food stuck in it, and he got a lot of attention from airport security. Apparently, it also made two little girls cry. But the beard is just the beginning.

Jacobs says there are more than 700 rules in the Bible. He followed as many as possible, as literally as possible.

He even stoned an adulterer. No, we're not kidding!

Jacobs wrote about it all in a book called 'The Year of Living Biblically."

I heard about this episode last night and got curious about it as you can well understand. The interview was quite humorous and at times very insightful in terms of what "religion" offers secular society. However, he did comment on what we would call "cafeteria faith". Cafeteria faith being that one picks and chooses what they like and don't like about a particular faith system and lives out only that which they appreciate.

Funny thing is that I know we disagree with this concept in word, but in the day to day i wonder how much of this kind of thinking permeates our experience. I've often asked myself what I don't like about Scripture and faith, I wonder how much my preferences dictate how I understand the world, God and even myself.