On pride

TÕNU NAELAPEA

40 Christmases ago I received a very valuable present from Inge and Andres Tork. By happenstance that gift, C. S. Lewis’ book “Mere Christianity” surfaced at the end of last year, to be read once again.

The Torks were devout Christians, pillars of St. Peter’s Estonian Lutheran Church, where I was at the time a member of the congregation’s youth choir “Lootus”, along with the Tork offspring.

The elder Torks did not proselytize or attempt to convince me of the values of Christianity, even though in many ways I grew up in a heathen family. They left it to the individual to discover faith, evaluate Christian apologetics, ethics and theology – in fact, as the back cover of Lewis’ book states, “all the central problems of belief and conduct which face Christianity today.”

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