February 2006
Dear Friends of Credenda,
We really are grateful for the financial support that you offer to our magazine. We are now entering our eighteenth year of publication, which helps to explain quite a number of things. This accounts for the adolescent sense of humor, as well as the fact that we don’t appear to be tired yet. It kind of takes me back on the heels, however, to note that when we first started publishing our little rag I was thirty-four years old. And on the downside, we are now eligible to be drafted. Before that happens (and we find ourselves somewhere in the Middle East trying to explain one of Beauchamps’ little cartoons to a mob of angry Islamo-fascists), allow me to explain one thing. I would like to explain, one more time, why (dollar for dollar) a gift to Credenda is the most effective way to support a rigorous Reformed and Trinitarian theology that is simultaneously full of beans.
Our “subscription” system is simple enough. We do not have a straight-up subscription fee, but rather mail the magazine for a couple years to anyone who donates any amount. We are very grateful to God for all of you who have done this, and are grateful to you as well. You may give by simply sending a check back to us in the enclosed envelope. If you are reading this on-line, you can simply go to our web site and help us out there. Just go to Credenda, click on subscriptions, and follow the directions. If you get this letter in the mail and you read it on-line, this means that you are supposed to give twice. Not really. Just a little fund-raising humor.
In my last letter to you, I said that a gift in our direction would be appropriate, because resources are always necessary in battle. “We really are in the thick of it,” I said, “and are extremely grateful for those who support the work.” This remains the case, and so we look to you again.
We have some good topics coming up-our next issue is on the practice of small children taking communion, and we are planning some other ventures as well. There will be an issue on the literary work of Flannery O’Conner, another issue which will be “against gravity,” and then something on dealing with antagonists in the church.
Thank you once again for your faithful support.
Cordially in Christ,
Douglas Wilson