Reflections On Faith and 17th Century European-American Colonists
A Peek at the Sources
I’ve been thinking that my readers would be interested in how I gathered the resources used in Mediko, so I have prepared the following remarks. Enjoy! In the process of writing Mediko, I held many different documents in my hands. Books with yellowed pages, tiny old photos in black and white, microfilm, small pamphlets, magazines, and thousands of pages of typed and…
Why the eschatology?
I have heard from some readers that they struggled with the frequent references in Mediko to eschatology (the doctrine of last things). It is true that I included much about that subject from Raph’s training at Newton Seminary to the latter years of his life. While Raph’s struggle with the date-setting of the word “imminence” as he saw it is not crucial…
A Breath for a Blog
It is natural to breathe. The absence of breath is fatal. A blog does not flow naturally when there is no time to breathe, and breathlessness has characterized the last few months. The absence of fresh blog material is not fatal, but it is discouraging to the reader. It is to the blogger, too. Now that the season of breathless, breakneck running…
