evangelicalism
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A Silent Departure
It was the height of election season, and I was at a post-service lunch at the Baptist church. The conversation was getting too political too quickly, and I’d accidentally outed myself as a Democratic supporter. I had to escape. Someone at the table asked why I was so adamant about not voting for the Republican… Continue reading
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Billy Graham
Generations past, my mother’s side of the family was Protestant. I don’t know what denomination. I don’t think it matters. According to family lore, Great-Grandpa Luigi was the lone Protestant in his neighborhood of Italian Catholics, and the Catholic kids used to throw rocks at him. (Way to show God’s love, kids.) Maybe it’s no… Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6