By Robert E. Leverenz
death penalty is conducted. Now: The loss of life penalty is abolished in twenty states.
Then: Geraldine Ferraro used to be nominated via the Democratic get together to run because the vice presidential candidate. Now: girls are between these looking the presidential nomination in either significant events.
Then and now: The juxtaposition on a bunch of significant concerns found in the 1980's and the 1st decade of the twenty first century. Is the United States a spiritual country? The abuse of energy, the relation among church and nation: those are yet a couple of pattern of the 31 commentaries addressing matters spanning the a long time from the 1980's to the current. There are a few which stand by myself with none parallel expression in our day. there's one titled: "Baseball Revisited."
"The instances they're a-changing. sure and no!"
"Is there something new below the sunlight? sure and no!"
"Weaving in undying subject matters from Ecclesiastes and the traditional Greeks, Leverenz astutely reviews on cogent, insightful radio commentaries he wrote again within the Reagan years, shooting either growth and the absence of change--from the Reagan years to Obama."
--Craig R. Mosher, affiliate Professor & Director of Social paintings software; division Head - Sociology, Anthropology and Social paintings (SASW) division, Luther College
"Leverenz's ebook [is] a really readable and well timed sequence of 'then' and 'now' vignettes that divulge key matters shortly dealing with us as really being repetitions of these [from] the 1980's. Drawing from his stories as a pastor and Public Radio commentator, he skillfully weaves his real looking thesis that whereas the avid gamers in heritage switch, the plot continues to be recognizably an identical. included with unhappiness over the human , a touch emerges that know-how may possibly sluggish recurrence."
--W. Paul Jones, Emeritus Professor, writer
Robert E. Leverenz is a United Methodist minister and social employee. He has complicated levels from Duke Divinity institution, St. Paul tuition of Theology, and a Masters of Social paintings from the collage of Iowa. He has served parishes in Iowa and Oregon. he's the writer of Poetic Expressions: the extreme within the Ordinary, and That's What they're in For! A Pastoral Memoir of a Privileged Profession. He lives in Portland, Oregon together with his spouse Melanie.
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