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The Day is Coming
At a student conference at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, I first encountered a mature, muscular understanding of the Christian faith I had received from Sunday school. The Rev. Joseph Wesley Matthews had been holding forth for…
Read MoreAnd My Eyes Shall Behold
I remember that as my father got older and began to decline, he would sometimes ask me that I thought happened to us after death. While he was not a church-going person, he had grown up in the cradle of…
Read MoreSaints Steadfast to the End
If there’s somethin’ strange in your neighborhood · Who you gon’ call? (Ghostbusters!) If there’s somethin’ weird, and it don’t look good. Who you gon’ call? (Ghostbusters!). Well Halloween’s over and the vampires, skeletons and ghosts have put their costumes away…
Read MoreAn Eruption of Prayer
It has oft been said that there are no atheists in foxholes. When shells are bursting all around, the air is rife with prayer every bit as with smoke. Deafening explosions and smell of cordite bring forth from the human…
Read MoreLove in A Leprous Time
In 1985 the noted Columbian novelist, Gabriel García Márquez wrote Love in the Time of Cholera. The story is set in an un-named, steamy South American country at the time beset by multiple outbreaks of cholera.[1] The main characters are…
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