Month: April 2005
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Stripping the Altar
John Mark Reynolds, 2005. For Eastern Christians today is Good Friday. Last night we recollected Christ’s gift of Holy Communion to the Church. At the end of that most beautiful of services in the light of candles the altar was stripped. Every decoration was removed. Every sign of honor was taken from it.It is a…
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Nearer My God to Thee
John Mark Reynolds, 2005. Tonight almost a century ago the RMS Titanic sank. Thousands of people lost their lives in a disaster that came to symbolize the death of the false optimism that had marked the start of the century. Liberalism in 1900 felt it had at last escaped the chains of fundamentalism. Christianity would…
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Getting Free
John Mark Reynolds, 2005. Last summer our dog, Aristotle, died. It had been my fourteen year old son’s boyhood companion. I can close my eyes and see L.D. being dragged around the block by a young Aristotle. The dog was bigger than the boy! One day, and it happened all at once, he was much…