Summer 1994

Volume IX, Number 2

In This Issue

• God’s Glory; Neighbor’s Good by Zenos Hawkinson

  We have it from the Apostle Paul that we are clay pots. But we are clay pots filled with treasure from God. And in the quietness of this hour, I should like you fellow clay pots to reflect with some imagination about the treasure you contain.

• Virtues of the Motorcycle by Tim Portinga

  I’m tired of always being on the defensive. If someone in polite society discovers that I ride motorcycles, I get the inevitable responses. “Yeah, I had a xyz motorcycle but I almost crashed, so I got smart quick and sold the thing.”

• Waldenstrom's Commentary John 6:24-35 and Waldenstrom’s Commentary translated by Tommy Carlson

  That they were searching for him, showed that they expected to find him there. But they wanted to know when he had come there because he had not come with the disciples.

• A Pilgrim’s Progress by Elder M. Lindahl

  On Wednesday, June 8, I walked the shore of Walden Pond where Henry David Thoreau had walked. I was teaching a course on “Thoreau’s World: A Study in New England Transcendentalism,” at Pilgrim Pines, New Hampshire.

• I Can Learn More by Carl Philip Anderson

  We met only once, but I will never forget the look of determination on the young man’s face as he said: “I can learn more.” We were in a tiny restaurant along the Interstate in Utah.

• Practical, Therapeutic, Theological Thought Nothing Notable by Penrod

  Times have been tough. I have been on the knees of my soul, but I have not been doing something useful as Herzog recommended. No floor scrubbing for me.

• Stones by Robert D. McNaughton

  On a quiet and balmy August evening in 1992, I walked across one of the several bridges in Geneva, Switzerland into Old Town, and immediately began climbing the increasingly steep streets, which sweep on upward toward the focal point of the city: the Cathedral of St. Pierre.

• Poetry The In-The-World Christian by Ed Mampel

  Like Hamlet, at midnight, / Clad in suit and cloak of black, / Awaiting his father’s ghost to appear, / To begin his story:

• Three Covenant Boat Rides by Karl Klockars

  Although the Covenant is boldly non-creedal, it does recognize the Trinity. These three stories, though three in number, are neither holy nor illustrative of anything other than that, over the course of a few decades, there have been Covenant adventures on the water.

• On Oscar Ahnfelt and his “Spiritual Songs” by Christina Ekström

  Oscar Ahnfelt (1813-1882) was the son of a clergyman from Skåne, and he intended to become a clergyman himself. Around 1840 he began to study music in the capitol, Stockholm.

• Notes on Oscar Ahnfelt from Sing It Again by J. Irving Erickson

  Although the parish [in which Ahnfelt’s family lived] was near an area strongly influenced by Herrnhut piety, Jonas Ahnfelt had no sympathy for Moravians or Pietists. The atmosphere of the home was cultured, and eminent people were frequent guests.

• Reviving the Tiger by Arthur W. Anderson

  Just as I was about to head out, I was caught by a revealing TV interview by Bill Moyer with Walter Brueggeman, an Old Testament scholar from Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta.

• Poetry Änglamark — Angel-Garden by Evert Taube and translated by Elder M. Lindahl

  Call it an Angel-Garden or Paradise, if you will, / the earth we received with green groves is heavenly, / buttercups, wildroses, and daisies on every hill, / please let them live, they are truly so lovely!

• Out and About by Phil Johnson

  I drove to Chicago the third week in June because it was the week of the Annual Meeting of the Covenant and of the Covenant Ministerium. These meetings have been a time and a place in which I could see old friends and peddle a few Pietistens.

• Sport Report by Phil Johnson

  “The Sabbath day is a day of rest,” Mother insisted. That was final. I knew it was hopeless to turn to my dad. He was a preacher who said the same thing.

• Sport Prophecy Sport Prophecy (Second Hand) by Eric

  The Sport Prophet declined to make any prophecy this issue. Ordinarily at this time of the year, he forecasts the outcome of the NFL.

• Post: Readers Respond

  Great Spring, 1994 Pietisten! The cover interview “An Interview with Paul Holmer,” was outstanding. I made copies to send to my kids who are C.S. Lewis fans.

• Poetry Aware by Arthur Mampel

  Time seduces the blood, / blurs the sight of the / Traveller on his way / from sun to sun.