The Worst Policy
John A. T. Robinson’s Honest to God
by S. M. Hutchens
One of the chief vexations faced by the liberal churchman is the charge that he is not an honest man. His religion is marked, in the name of enlightenment, by dissent and departure from the traditional beliefs of the Church, while his public face uses—it must use—the language of the Church in its public work.
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