John Piper Quotes
Go, send, or disobey.
Piper, John. Let the Nations Be Glad! The Supremacy of God in Missions. Baker Academic, 1993.
There was no Civil Rights Law during Kennedy’s administration, and Black African diplomats who were driving from New York to Washington would be refused accommodations and amenities at restaurants and rest stops along the way. They often protested to the State Department who approached the President asking what they should tell the diplomats.
This exchange took place right after Kennedy had been assassinated. Johnson was not sure that the Kennedy staff would be loyal and responsive to him.
In 1877 Wasburn was dropped from the List of Ministers by the Unitarian Church. He had become quite atheistic.
Commenting on the Pope's strictures against contraception:
Cixi had been one of the many concubines of the Emperor and she bore a son who was first in the line of succession. The Emperor’s wife, Empress Zhen had no children but was the senior official of the Empire when her husband died. Instead of being rivals, Cixi and Zhen were very close friends so when it had to be decided who was to rule until Cixi’s son became of age, the women agreed that Zhen would see to the education and the training of the child and manage the court, and Cixi would manage the government and the Empire as regents for the child. However, in 1875, the boy died and there was no clear successor. Cixi with Zhen’s approval then issued this edict and in effect seized control of the entire empire of China.
John Stephen Piper is a theologian, pastor, and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Piper taught Biblical Studies at Bethel University for six years (1974-1980), before serving as Pastor for Preaching and Vision of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis for 33 years (1980-2013).
