by Richard Wilson | Dec 25, 2003 | Opinion
Among all of the songs of the season, “O Little Town of Bethlehem” surely will be among the most frequently sung this weekend. The hymn may also be the one with the greatest honesty of all the tunes associated with Christmas. Phillips Brooks got it just...
by Richard Wilson | Dec 15, 2003 | Opinion
“Forgive and forget,” the old saying goes. It is not possible. Things that urgently plead for forgiveness are the same things that cannot be forgotten. The need for forgiveness announces that something happened that will be hard to forget. Old wounds...
by Richard Wilson | Nov 18, 2003 | Opinion
Mention of Harry Emerson Fosdick usually brings to mind his very public role in the fundamentalist-modernist controversy that rattled Protestant America early in the 1920s. In 1918 Fosdick accepted the position as preaching minister at the First Presbyterian Church of...
by Richard Wilson | Oct 8, 2003 | Opinion
On July 26, 1865, Horace Bushnell delivered a speech that secured his position in American history as the prophet of the Civil War. The war recently had come to an end, but the blood of soldiers on both sides of the conflict was still bright in the memories of all in...
by Richard Wilson | Aug 18, 2003 | Opinion
Just over 30 years ago John Howard Yoder published his stinging critique of the image of Jesus that had become widely accepted in the academy and the church. The Politics of Jesus is as relevant today as it was in 1972. Scholarship in the last century regularly...
