rom Us:
We are hearing from more and more of you, and it is a real blessing to us. We are grateful that Credenda appears to be meeting a genuine doctrinal and practical need. We thank you for letting us hear from you.
At the same time, (as much as we appreciate the kudos) another goal we have for this page is to provide a forum for more detailed interaction with you. So please do not hesitate to question something we have published or make a comment. We don't know about you, but when we read a publication with nothing but "rave reviews" in the letters column, we get suspicious about the contents of their circular file.
One or two limitations do apply however. We have decided on principle not to run anonymous letters. This decision was unfortunately precipitated by a particularly funny one, but we decided we would rather not start a precedent. If we were to start publishing anonymous letters, the first thing you would know we would be sorting through piles of single-spaced, typewritten letters with vertical typing up the margins sent to us by anonymous Correspondents of the Fevered Brow.
The other limitation is that we are obviously constrained by space. We are willing to edit your letter to fit on this page, but you know how editors are, and we want you to be satisfied that we were being fair with your point.
Thanks again to all.
From You
We recently became acquainted with your publication and find it very edifying reading . . . Thank you very much.
Thank you for your wonderful publication! It is one of two that are my favorites (I receive six journals and newsletters) . . . I read about fifty or sixty books a year, and therefore, really appreciated your recent issue on "The Power of Print." . . . May God bless you and increase your ministry, even as your faithfulness and obedience increase.
Greetings in the Name of our Lord . . . I have just encountered your valuable publication and was thrilled to read the views on printed matter . . . Wes Callihan's article really mirrors my sentiments and longings. God bless you richly.
Thank you so much for your work in producing Credenda/Agenda. I have been taught a great deal from it over the past few months... Again, thank you for standing firm with good Biblical teaching and promoting Biblical living.
I appreciate the new and larger (and, as a result) BETTER Credenda/Agenda!
Thanks for adding "Femina." The voice of orthodoxy is so faint in much of the modern Christian literature targeted at women.
I have been encouraged and taught from your literature ministry for over a year. I have xeroxed pages and sent them to friends . . I am also happy to see you supporting the new Reformation and Revival Journal . . . Praise God for your labor of love.
Editor's reply: Please see our review of
Reformation and Revival in this issue's "Ex Libris."
I have just received my first issue of Credenda/Agenda today. Thank you for putting out such a publication and I look forward to future issues. I notice on the last page that you plan to address the issue of "many evangelical Christians" converting to various forms of "Eastern Orthodoxy" . . . Our Session and Presbytery have wrestled with refuting this false doctrine . . . I would encourage you not to inadvertently add fuel to their irrational mystical fire by speaking of "many" evangelical Christians converting to the Orthodox religion. Other than a handful of men, I doubt that Orthodoxy has made much of a dent upon evangelical Christianity. I'm sure that we have more converts in our churches from Orthodoxy than vice versa. I look forward to your next issue!
Editor's reply: We think you are right about the overall number of converts. We also think, however, that Eastern Orthodoxy has
suceeded in converting more evangelical
shepherds than vice-versa, and that this points to a serious deficiency in how we prepare men for the
ministry of the Word.
