GERALD COWAN’S PERSONAL PERIODICALS
Number 569 • October 3, 2020
BLESSED BE THE TIE THAT BINDS OUR HEARTS IN CHRISTIAN LOVE.
Can love, Christian love, be the antidote to racism?
You might want to get your hymn book out and sing John Fawcett’s song “Blessed (or Blest) Be the Tie” – it bears in its first verse the words given as a title to this essay. Hopefully all six verses of the song will be available in your book for you to sing. It emphasizes what we share as Christians: mutual woes, burdens, sympathies, hopes, and expectations of perfect peace, love, and friendship in heaven that will last for all eternity. It emphasizes the value and power of *the fellowship of kindred minds* that keeps us *joined in heart* even when we have to be apart from each other – a pandemic disease is not the only separation and social distancing we endure in life. Continue reading