EGP Introduction
Introduction
To explain how it all started, I must tell you about Edith Bennett (1931-2013). For more than fifty years, she hosted a Sunday morning radio program that eventually became the longest running such endeavor in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It was carried on WOMI-FM in Owensboro, Kentucky. In 1991, I became her pastor at Third Baptist Church, where she was both a member and an employee. She invited me to contribute a “devotional” for use each week on her program, and I did … in a manner of speaking, because what I actually prepared were five-minute recordings that I came to call “commentary on religion and American life.” At least that is the subtitle I gave to my own radio program when, in 1998, I …
The Red Letter Jesus
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