Letter to the Editor: I very much appreciate your descriptions and metaphors of the different categories of evangelicals. But I’m more thankful for your clear vision and your courage to ...
Letters and Then Some More Letters
A Grateful Parting from National Review
Introduction: I first subscribed to National Review when I was still in high school. This was probably around 1969, which means that I have been a dutiful subscriber for around 53 years now. I bring this up because I am about to let my subscription lapse, a reality which should come to pass any day …
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Nuts and Oranges
“Her voice was a sweet contralto, and it reminded Andrew of nuts, and oranges, and a woman that he assumed was his mother.”
The Immunity That Matters
All Misery
“Not big. By the time a soul is damned, it has withered a great deal. But what is left is all misery.”
Just in Case . . .
There are many members of the military who are facing disciplinary action because of their refusal to take the bad vax. Unfortunately, the Department of Defense does not want you to find out about each other, and so the chances are good that you feel pretty isolated. But please know that there is a lot …
What All Dragons Want
“So Fafnir has chosen what he wants. He does not want to eat hay or become a weaver. He is a dragon, so he wants to hoard gold and capture maidens. You are Andrew, and your fathers were great in the kingdom, and so you want to kill the firedrake.”
Don’t Make Your Wife a Lesbian
Dear Dawson, If you don’t mind, I am going to repeat myself a bit. You can consider this letter as something of a summary of everything I have written to you over the last few months—with maybe some new stuff here or there. It has become something of a custom in evangelical circles to use …
As Though Nothing at All Had Happened
“On the far side of this flat space, covered with rocks and boulders, the path resumed its way down the long hillside as though nothing had happened.”
Letters Like Leaves on a New Hampshire Hillside in the Autumn
Letter to the Editor: In a sermon you preached about children in the congregation, you mentioned that the word for nurture (paidea) is getting at the idea about inculturation. I was ...