Writings
Let me introduce Fred….a man whose character was as drab as his life. Fred shuffled paper in a low level government job, retiring after 40 years on the payroll. He lived alone in a one-bedroom rental apartment, yet showed little signs of regretting his solitary existence.
Not that I am all that superstitious, but I can’t ever recall visiting a graveyard in the dark. Even I, who preach that death is always normal, never final, and seldom catching, would find that “spooky.” I would wait until dawn, or at least the half-light of dawn.
Somewhere on God’s green earth lives a lady named Runa Ware, who has written a book entitled All Those in Favor, Say Something. I have not read her book, but Kline Roberts has. And he has shared with me this little slice of her story. She begins:
Thomas Long is a most interesting fellow who presently does full-time what I am soon to do part-time….namely, teach divinity students a little bit about preaching. In his most recent book, Testimony: Talking Ourselves Into Being Christian, he reports the following:
