Into the Breach

A Word for Pastors

Fellow Pastors,

The coward’s temptation in every age is to thunder where it is safe and whisper where the battle actually rages. But to flinch at the point under attack is not faithfulness; it is betrayal. Call it what it is: cowardice.

Solzhenitsyn saw it clearly. In the West, truth is expected to come with soft edges, polite caveats, and constant self-d…