“The Word will stand forever,” Isaiah affirmed in chapter 40. Indeed, the words of the prophets do still stand, well over two millennia after they were first uttered. As the following media accounts demonstrate, however, these days the Word often stands incongruously in odd company. Earlier this year a syndicated columnist found in Newt Gingrich a modern exemplar of the prophet Jeremiah. An indignant letter writer (to The Post-Standard in Syracuse, New York) fired back: “I’ve never seen Newt sacrifice his personal happiness to speak God’s judgment to the people of the U.S.A., as Jeremiah did to the people […]
