
On Keeping My Mouth Shut in Sunday School
Being a Very Long Alternative Sunday School Lesson to the One I Just Heard
- 136 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
On Keeping My Mouth Shut in Sunday School
Being a Very Long Alternative Sunday School Lesson to the One I Just Heard
About this book
This book is simply a written Sunday school lesson rather than the oral variety. The primary topic is war and the relationship of a Christian to it. While someday war shall be studied no more, that day has not yet arrived. This book chronicles with specific examples how a few Christians like Rev. J. J. Taylor, Alvin York, Vernon Grounds, Franz Jagerstatter, and the author himself have approached the topic. Dietrich Bonhoeffer also makes a guest appearance, as do Tolstoy, Gandhi, and MLK.The book does not advocate a pure pacifism. The author has not solved all the problems associated with that viewpoint and does not know anyone who has. But it does argue for peacemaking, the likes of which is addressed by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount and by St. Paul, who urges us to wrestle with principalities and powers, i.e., ideas, and not to wrestle with flesh and blood. This the author has tried to do within these peacemaking pages and the comparative safety of his laptop and life in bucolic and pastoral Jamestown, North Carolina.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Preface
- An Opening Prayer by Mark Twain
- The Actual Lesson
- Alvin York
- Bonhoeffer Sketch27
- Letter to Quentin Self
- Lesser Known Baptists
- “J. J. Taylor” by Laurence M. Vance
- J. J. Taylor Essay by Bill Sumners
- A Dietrich Recall
- Meredith Willson’s Sunday School Class
- A Sketch of Scoundrel and Scalawag C.I. Scofield
- Bibliography