“To live in the twentieth century is to wear the stitch of horror on one’s heart, so close are we to the edge of violence.” — Martin Marty Marty wrote those words in the shadow of World War II, the Korean Conflict, and the Cold War. I was born in the twentieth century but I …
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Troubled Hearts
Eight years ago my wife and I were expecting our second child. We went in for a gender scan at 18 weeks and they couldn’t find a heartbeat. To say that we were gutted is an understatement. Some may not see the death of a child in the womb as equivalent to the death of …
an occasional theologian 