If I live in fearful times; / With things I cannot see, / Things I do not know, and / Things I cannot control.

Two crownings, two swaddlings, and / One more birth, / As the tomb becomes a womb, / When Jesus delivers us from the final enemy.

We take unreasonable comfort in thinking we’re the last generation / Putting a bow on history; / Making the closing argument; / Vindicating the character of God.

It has taken me until my seventh decade to wonder about the impact of being taught as a child that anyone outside my denomination might one day persecute me.