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Editorial Introduction
by
Captain Stephen Court
Greetings in Jesus' name. Welcome to Issue 49
of Journal of Aggressive Christianity. Over the next two
issues we're celebrating 50 issues and taking two snapshots of
JAC at 50.
Come in and take a peek at one highlight from each of the
first ten issues of JAC. We've also got some fresh
contributions. And then, next issue, we'll give you another
peak.
Founding co-editor of JAC, John Norton, gets pride of place in
these festivities, with a manifesto that takes up the torch
from Catherine Booth. It was written in the privations of the
Salvation War on a difficult front in hard conditions. Be
stirred. As the other co-editor, I slipped in a little
something that I wrote in the second issue.
We yanked Phil Wall's The Legacy as the issue three
representative. It is as applicable today as when originally
written. Then We chose Robert Marshall's Call for Sobriety,
based on Amos 4, from issue 3.
Major Graham Harris offers our theological meat for this
issue, in Image Or Offering, originally from issue eight. Read
it closely. It interrupts a stream of interviews of such Salvo
luminaries as General Brown, Commissioner Chang, General
Burrows, (then)Commissioner Clifton, Commissioner Joe Noland,
and Colonel Dennis Phillips. And the ubiquitous Commissioner
Harris is our pick from issue ten with Tradition and
Innovation.
The fresh contributions for issue forty-nine aren't as new as
you might first imagine. Cadet Michael Ramsay dug up a
Canadian War Cry report of the Invasion of Winnipeg from 1885.
And Major Geoff Webb dug up the original verison of Who Cares?
by General William Booth. Finally, Commissioner Wesley Harris
weighs in with Unity and Diversity. And Major Janet Munn wraps
up this issue with Holiness in Hebrews.
Enjoy all the articles and interviews. We'll do it all again
in August , God-willing. If you can't stand the wait, the
archives contain probably 600 or 700 more articles.
God bless The Salvation Army.
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