A Journey into the Postmodern Hinterland
This was Forsyth, and the intellectual environment of the Evangelical Union: read everyone, apparent friend or possible foe, because the Christian faith can cope with it.
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This was Forsyth, and the intellectual environment of the Evangelical Union: read everyone, apparent friend or possible foe, because the Christian faith can cope with it.
We can feel the same when we hear a long-serving senior minister is moving on, or when a significant ministry declines or even closes entirely. Etch-A-Sketched: this disintegrating sensation points to the fragility of all the things of this world that we build.
‘Child’ was written on a trying day in the depths of the pandemic. As an effort to recite God’s words of comfort to myself, it felt like a lullaby from our Father to his children. And an invitation to trust him with each moment, little by little.
Some quarters of Western culture are beginning to wonder whether treasures were lost when Christianity was thrown out, are beginning to pick over the rubbish tip to retrieve them, in warm, perplexed curiosity, at the very least.
The song was written to be sung at a local women’s conference earlier this year. The conference was focused on the book of John, which inspired the lyrics.
