http://www.pietisten.org/authors/SturdyRalph.htmlen-ushttp://www.pietisten.org/winter00/sturdy.htmlhttp://www.pietisten.org/winter00/sturdy.htmlC. Cassius (Cash) Sturdy, Covenant Pastor and Military Chaplain, was one of a great generation of Covenant pietists. A person of the Word and of prayer in the best sense, he had an open and inquiring mind.http://www.pietisten.org/winter02/nouwen.htmlhttp://www.pietisten.org/winter02/nouwen.htmlA friend, Mitch Zeman, was an assistant to Henri and I was counting on him to introduce me to Father Nouwen. There were no specific promises of a meeting but late on my first afternoon at Yale, Mitch took me to the great man's office and introduced us. Nouwen asked me why I was there. http://www.pietisten.org/winter05/ivarwistrom.htmlhttp://www.pietisten.org/winter05/ivarwistrom.htmlOn Sunday June 12, Mel Soderstrom informed me that one of the giants of my life had fallen! Ivar Wistrom a character who seemed to me as old as North Park University and Seminary itself, finally, in the words of my grandfather, “checked out.” http://www.pietisten.org/christmas07/sexual_preference.htmlhttp://www.pietisten.org/christmas07/sexual_preference.htmlI am grieved that the 2004 Covenant Annual Meeting endorsed a policy on human sexuality that limits and judges the participation of homosexual persons in the life of denominational churches. I fear the policy was intended, at least in part, to cull out those who disagree. Some of my Covenant clergy brothers, suggest that if I can’t agree with them, I’d best find another denomination. I say to my brothers, “you can’t get rid of me that easily.”