Trouble At Church

7 July 2003

Soul SurvivorLately, I’ve been as disgusted with ”church” as at any time I can remember.

There’s help, however.

Philip Yancey has been a favorite writer of mine for several years. One of his books is titled Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church.

In it he says this about G. K. Chesterton, ”Chesterton had been dead more than thirty years when I first discovered him, but he resuscitated my moribund faith, as he has done for many others. ’I am the man who with the utmost daring discovered what had been discovered before,” Chesterton declared triumphantly. ”I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.’”

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