A Letter From Pastor Mark - March
Dear Friends, On Thursday, February 19, and Sunday, February 22, I made a pastoral statement regarding the violence and terror that is being visited upon innocent people throughout much of the world. I want to share the reasons I made my statement in this newsletter. As well as having studied theology and matters of the church, I have also been over my lifetime an ardent student of history. Even though I did not live through the WW II era, I have studied that period of history. What is interesting is that particular war was not just a conflict that was based in nationalistic militarism (however, that did exist but was used more as a tool rather than the main motivating force for the conflict) it was an epic battle to defeat one of the greatest evils the world had ever seen up to that time. Nazism and its philosophy of hate represented pure evil. That evil was visited upon millions of people simply because they were different from the N...