Read My Lips: ‘Christ Is the World’s Redeemer’

Uncategorized In the pews, a manly example is indispensable. When I used to try to sing in church, I would picture in my mind the public figures I admired most making a joyful noise from the pews. Two decades ago, during my first sojourn into church life in my early 20s, I strained to overcome my complete inability to carry a tune—and my admittedly prideful and sinful embarrassment at singing words that so plainly confessed my faith—by thinking of the various churchgoing notables who, in my imagination, easily overcame such trepidations. Because the first church I entered as a young adult was the Episcopal Church, my hymn-singing role models were along the lines of the former Republican presidents George H.W. Bush and Gerald Ford, Episcopalians both. If I imagined these solidly conservativ