This month we celebrated the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. This formational political document invokes “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” Political independence for the founders never meant independence from God. And He has put our Synod here for this moment. The Creed we confess is a Declaration of Dependence….
Read MoreMy only experience with caissons is in the logistics of death. I’ve walked behind caissons at Arlington Cemetery, as the body rolls to its resting place. These committals have taps, and guns, and an officer with a folded flag. Other burials have just a few people, grieving alone while the madding crowd continues its frenzy, oblivious to their doom.
It’s there, at the graveyard, where you really wonder what’s true….
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