Can the center hold?
We must not let the center be lost or the future will suffer even worse destructive craziness than our contemporary moment.
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We must not let the center be lost or the future will suffer even worse destructive craziness than our contemporary moment.
All this is almost a parody of the book of Revelation. The whiff of the apocalyptic is all around it.
All this is almost a parody of the book of Revelation. The whiff of the apocalyptic is all around it.
Like the whale that swallowed Jonah, a great gullet awaits churches that venture far into the dark deeps of politics. Despite the danger, churches and their leaders must venture into those perilous waters as surely as Jonah needed to wind up on the coastlands of Nineveh.
Editor's note: As an Independence Day treat, here is an Our Town column in which Richard Allin (1930-2007) has fun with his satirical towns Wad and Gudge Creek. This was the second column Allin wrote about the fictional Rep. Wallace Wad of the nonexistent Arkansas towns. Although he'd been joking about the towns for years, Allin had spelled Wad with two d's: Wadd. This was his first column using the canonical spelling, "Wad."