Friday, April 26, 2013

African Tithing and a Peculiar Blight

Currently Scanning: 120. "How to Know God."

Among the various folders of sermons, I have encountered a wide array of supplemental materials that Pa included with his sermons over the years. Some are funny, some are overly sentimental, some are theologically disappointing, and some are just plain bizarre. Take, for example, these two newspaper clippings from sermon #103, "Christian Stewardship," which describe (respectively) the method of tithing in an African village and a town's crops stricken with an unusual blight:




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