Thank you

MOST sincere thanks to all those involved in the God-inspired concept of Fortress Radio. To Stuart Hall and Austin Burn, who gave life to it with such perfect timing at the start of the first lockdown. To see it flourish and grow is truly remarkable. I’m sure they would say, too, that it needed committed presenters who shared their vision. This certainly was the case, especially on a Sunday. It was set up to show the Army as it was in years past, from a thought-provoking knee drill with Major Keith White, a Holiness hour with Majors Ian and Susan Woodgate and a most challenging Salvation meeting with Bandmaster Marc Harry. All the presenters were so helpful in those difficult, uncertain times. We now have Salvationist Radio, which offers the Army as it is ‘today’ rather than how it was ‘yesterday’. I’m sure God will continue to use and guide it.

Alan Croft Stowmarket

pressure on a preacher to satisfy a range of spiritual needs – including holiness and Salvation – in just one weekly sermon. David mentions ‘nuggets not boulders’. I offer these: A sermon should be long enough so that people don’t notice the time. A sermon is about quality not quantity. The question is: How good should a sermon be?

Major Nigel Bovey Exeter

Food For Thought

and the other disciple found the tomb empty, save for the shrouds. Shrouding a dead body is still common in some cultures.

Kevin Chubb Barry

On The No Faith In Fossil Fuels Pilgrimage

Holy Communion

THANK you for the reminder of the Army’s stance on Holy Communion (Salvationist 8 April). The United Reformed Church is using our hall for worship as their own building is not economically viable to maintain. Their service is in the morning and ours in the afternoon. We feel that this is church unity in action. When we attend their services, and they celebrate Communion, we are always included. We have explained that as Salvationists it is a personal choice whether we take Communion or not and they respect this. We will pass round the article among our friends, who will no doubt find the background and explanation helpful.

Mary Tyler Pontefract

Quality Not Quantity

DAVID Newstead’s point about the timing of sermons (Salvationist 18 March) is timely. During the Covid-19 lockdowns, preachers had to adopt new ways to reach –and maintain the attention of – their isolated congregations. Increasingly, corps meet only once on a Sunday. This increases

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I NOTED Malcolm Dragon’s letter (Salvationist 18 March) about vegetarianism. As an omnivore, I have sometimes deliberately chosen a vegetarian option and been disappointed. Many seem short on protein: I once had half a walnut in a ‘walnut and vegetable casserole’. I read a couple of labels on cutletshaped burgers – a meat alternative – and one was 9 per cent pea protein, the other 5 per cent wheat protein. Ultra-processed food is usually criticised by diet experts and food gurus. How a plateful of leaves can be made appetising without much processing is an interesting experiment.

Wesley Paxton Annan

He Is Risen

MY wife sells the War Cry every Saturday. Folk have been asking, ‘How can we be sure the Easter narrative is true?’ So how do we prove it? The dating, authorship and detail of the Gospel of John. The gap between event and writing is around 70 years, nowhere near enough time for fanciful stories and mythology to be incorporated. There is evidence to suggest it was written by John the apostle – that would imply that it was written by an eyewitness. At the beginning of John 20, we are told Peter

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