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The Historicity of Knowledge Claims
by J. Melburn Soneson
(with an introduction by his son, Jerry Soneson)
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Waldenstrom's Commentary
I Peter 1:3-9 and Waldenström's Commentary
translated by Tommy Carlson
Epistle lesson for the 2nd Sunday of Easter
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Books
On Books — Schor, Kozol, and Marable
reviewed by Dennis Jones
Juliet B. Schor’s The Overworked American, Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities, and Manning Marable’s The Crisis of Color and Democracy
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Books
Dialoguing with Chick and Tim
by Elder M. Lindahl
In my last article, “Ethics in the Mainstream,” I mentioned the book, Let’s Talk, An Honest Conversation on Critical Issues: Abortion, Aids, Euthanasia, and Health Care, by Doctors C. Everett Koop and G. Timothy Johnson.
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A Friend of the Immigrant Church
by Richard J. Swanson
In the account of the organizational meeting of the Covenant Church in By One Spirit, Karl Olsson (1962) writes the following colorful paragraph.
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Eating Your Words
by Arthur W. Anderson
Snow fell again last night here in New Hampshire. Out of the window of my study in the tall-spired Bethany Covenant Church in Bedford, I witness a picture-card-perfect scene of winter in New England. The mounds of white flakes are beginning to melt again, but I hope not too fast.
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Some Notes on Skogsbergh and Skogsbergh’s Point
by Philip J. Anderson
I was interested in the reference, a few issues ago [Summer 1992], to the summer home of Erik August Skogsbergh on the West Arm of Lake Minnetonka near Saga Hill, which was known as Skogsberghs udde (Skogsbergh’s Point).
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Therapeutic Theological Thought
by Penrod
Motto: “All therapy ends badly.” — Sigmund Freud
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J. S. Bach and Pietism
by Don O Franklin
New research by theologians and music historians has given rise to a new set of questions about J. S. Bach’s relationship to Pietism, a reform movement that was flourishing in Germany when he wrote his cantatas and passions. What links, if any, did Bach have to the movement? How well did he know the writings of the Pietistic fathers? And, what influence did their writings have on his sacred works?
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Sweden & America
If something is in print, check for an Olsson. Christopher Olsson is the editor of a fresh, bright, attractive quarterly journal that is well worth the $7.50 per year — for the cover and pictures alone.
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Meditation: Being on the Journey and Seeing God’s Back
by Sandy Johnson
Sometimes I like to think about life as being on a journey. Moses and the Israelites were on a journey, and they were counting on God to be with them.
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Out and About
by Phil Johnson
John Weborg was in town to preach at Founders’ Day. I might have skipped this year if it were not that John was speaking. I have been to quite a few Founders’ Day Meetings at Salem Covenant Church. I am sure I have been to at least five. In fact, I have reported on several of them in this column.
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Sport Report
Motto: The real game is the game you are in. Text: “Bodily exercise profiteth little.” — Paul of Tarsus
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Post: Readers Respond
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Poetry
Walker Percy (1916-1990)
by Arthur Mampel
“Above all, we see the man in all his shifting moods, ‘the gracious, easy, almost avuncular manner straining against a powerful, furious, intensity, an almost furious energy.’ Here is the dark tragedy, the humor, the hard-earned wisdom of a life whose outward calm concealed an internal drama — an unrelenting fight against hopelessness and despair.” — Pilgrim in the Ruins — Jay Tolson
