Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you” [Jonah 3:1-2]. Because of you-know-what, our family, like yours, could not celebrate Christmas 2020 in the usual manner. For Jane and me, there was no packed Duke Chapel for Handel’s Messiah, no crowded church service on Christmas Eve, and no hustle and bustle with last minute gift errands. Because the weather forecasts for Christmas Day here in Durham weren’t promising, the extended family (children, spouses, and 7 grandchildren) gathered on the Tuesday evening before Christmas at–not inside–Zambrero’s, a new restaurant in the…
"Dispatches to the Front" -- a collection of theological meditations by Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., M.Div.