Leaves from the notebook of a tamed cynic

The author’s reluctance to have this book published is all the more reason for the publishers’ desire to have it see the light of day. The author felt that the book would be reg...

Next week we are going to hold our first every member canvass. They expect me to preach a sermon which will prepare the good people to give generously. I don’t mind that. Most p...

But the fact is that circumstance probably affects the quality of the message as much as purpose. A full church gives me the sense of fighting with a victorious host in the batt...

I was asked to visit ---- (leading preacher) and see whether I could not interest him in our organization. He was an interesting study. He told me of his important connections i...

If I had to choose between this bitterness and the blandness of many pulpiteers I would, of course, choose the former. Better a warrior’s grimness than the childish sentimentali...

The ministers of the country are by various methods dissociating themselves from the Detroit churches and are implying that they would have acted more generously in a like situa...

Nevertheless I hate a thoroughgoing cynic. I don’t want anyone to be more cynical than I am. If I am saved from cynicism at all it is by some sense of personal loyalty to the sp...

Here is the Episcopal church which many of us have counted blessed because it was the one bridge over the chasm which separates Catholicism and Protestantism. But the chasm is n...

Had a profitable talk with a Jewish friend in the east. He said the only Christian church that he could ever join would be that of the Quakers. Of course he would not join the Q...