Number one, we've just begun

Rod Dreher revealed recently that he couldn't come up with more than six of the Ten Commandments from memory. He also pointed out the irony of this fact coming from someone who often gets on his "high horse about theological ignorance," so I won't pile on.

I've mentioned before that, while I haven't retained everything I learned at my evangelical grade school, I do recall a catchy song for remembering the U.S. presidents in order. (This came in handy this past Presidents Day in an internal Century office competition.) We also performed a lot of musicals, including the popular '80s Christmas program Angels Aware—which features the (classic!) Ten-Commandments-remembering song "The Perfect Ten."

Less helpfully, the lyrics also offer a gloss on each commandment: