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The Lord’s Supper refuses the rolling pin. It cannot be flattened into something of our own making. In the Lord’s Supper, the Triune God breaks out of the boxes we construct in vain to domesticate Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That is the message of Gordon Smith’s A Holy Meal. He writes with the conviction that the holy meal instituted by Jesus continues to challenge our assumptions about the...

Their love of the past both idealizes that past and also keeps them from truly living in the present. Such remembering does not serve people well. We may remember the details or the specifics of what happened in the past, but memories serve us well only if they enable us to be fully present in the here and now and grant us courage to face tomorrow. Nostalgic sentimentalism is not true remembering. An authentic act of remembrance allows the past to inform and animate the present; it enables us to
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