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Five months ago, I began a series of essays on my favorite things. I won’t be surprised if you’ve forgotten. But I’ll reproduce the opening paragraph, which took the form of an announcement.
Let me give fair notice. I intend to begin a series, written only now and then, naming my favorite things. Some of these things are directly religious in nature: my favorite theol...
Some people think that politics should be left out of the pulpit. One small, Midwestern denomination articulates as one of its “fundamental principles” that partisan political preaching is “discountenanced.” The sentiment is echoed in many Christian groups, even if they do not state it formally.
This aversion to political preaching grows from two sources. First, theolo...
[This Nick of Time essay was originally published on January 23, 2015.]
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth . . .
[and] there was not a man to till the face of the ground.
The doe paused on the edge of the glade, frozen between hunger and caution. Her normal sense of self-preservation was amplified...
Please travel back in time with me many, many ages ago to the First Baptist Church of Granite Falls, MN. The day is June 3, 1961. Along with family members and friends and in the presence of God, Ray Pratt and Marie Pates exchanged wedding vows, promising lifelong fidelity to each other. By God’s grace, this week marks sixty-five years they have kept those vows.
Good ...