by Richard Wilson | Jul 8, 2003 | Opinion
The idea of a Christian America is deeply entrenched in a broad segment of citizens of the United States. Where the does the notion arise and can it be supported? As a matter of history the idea of a Christian America is the product of the merging of three very...
by Richard Wilson | Jun 24, 2003 | Opinion
Biographer Dores Sharp reports that 3-year-old Walter Rauschenbusch responded to the common question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” with the uncommon response, “I want to be John the Baptist!” Out of the mouth of a babe came words...
by Richard Wilson | Apr 18, 2003 | Opinion
The Saturday between Good Friday and Easter Sunday is the often-neglected day of Holy Week. “Dark Saturday” it is sometimes called and, like its name, it is a day that tends to get lost in the shadows. The first shadows that tend to obscure Dark Saturday...
by Richard Wilson | Apr 11, 2003 | Opinion
How was it that a German Lutheran pastor, once noted for his pacifism, would die in his 39th year, convicted of high treason against the government of his beloved Germany? Only days before, Nazis had discovered Admiral Canaris’s diary that detailed the work of...
by Richard Wilson | Mar 31, 2003 | Opinion
The bright light of Easter casts some very long shadows—because the horror of crucifixion began at midday on Friday and lingered until dawn on Sunday. That is the story of the Christian Gospels. Jesus of Nazareth dies on Friday as a result of a Roman decree issued by...
