High Standards and Good Character

Dear Pastor Joe, I am responding publicly in this paper to your article in last week’s paper, “Let’s Build a Wall, Not Create One!”. These opinions are solely mine. I do not have the title Pastor, yet learned much under your ministry, while attending the church you pastored.

I too have a burden for the state of things in our country. I respond to your comments (using your words) “as a ‘born again’ Evangelical” who has been a lifelong “white republican fundamentalist”. You bring out some excellent points, “that Jesus nailed it”, quoting Luke, “for the mouth speaks what the heart is full of”. An...