News of Charlottesville
Since our return from the church camp, Karin & I have learned what happened at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
At the camp, the news didn’t reach us.
We didn’t hear it from the pulpit.
We didn’t hear it from the other campers.
Nor did we hear it on the Internet, our access to which was quite limited. (I paid $7.99 to use just 6 MB, and so I browsed very little.)
It’s possible that the event was mentioned during the Sunday morning service, which we didn’t attend.
It certainly wasn’t mentioned during Saturday night’s sermon, which ended forty-five minutes late. (That sermon was about Satanic rock music and “crossing the line.”)
On Friday morning, that same preacher had spoken rather well about the willful neglect of the truth. And so I’m puzzled why, on Saturday night, he didn’t mention what’s clearly a national crisis. Instead, in his preliminary remarks, he talked about how the camp had erected a shrine to his dead cat.
Maybe, like Karin & me, he simply was cut off from the rest of the world.
At the camp, the news didn’t reach us.
We didn’t hear it from the pulpit.
We didn’t hear it from the other campers.
Nor did we hear it on the Internet, our access to which was quite limited. (I paid $7.99 to use just 6 MB, and so I browsed very little.)
It’s possible that the event was mentioned during the Sunday morning service, which we didn’t attend.
It certainly wasn’t mentioned during Saturday night’s sermon, which ended forty-five minutes late. (That sermon was about Satanic rock music and “crossing the line.”)
On Friday morning, that same preacher had spoken rather well about the willful neglect of the truth. And so I’m puzzled why, on Saturday night, he didn’t mention what’s clearly a national crisis. Instead, in his preliminary remarks, he talked about how the camp had erected a shrine to his dead cat.
Maybe, like Karin & me, he simply was cut off from the rest of the world.