Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Assassin – REVIEW
by John Jackman Movies are not academic documentaries; they are storytelling and drama. Filmmakers must always take some license to fit a complex story into two hours, and indeed is…
The Refiner’s Fire
This morning I preached on Malachi 3:1-20, a passage made famous to moderns by the aria in Handel’s The Messiah: For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’…
Book Review: “Crazy For God:”
Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back by Frank…
Rose Window, Salem UCC, Allentown, PA
The Parable of the Magnificent Church
Once upon a time, in the city of Allentown, PA, a huge and magnificent church was dedicated in 1876. Salem Reformed Church was built on the highest point in the…
In Celebration of Laughter
I remember as a child going to the Washington Zoo, and laughing at the monkeys’ antics. My mother turned to me and said “Anyone who thinks God doesn’t have a…