The Jack Miller Archive

"I think I can begin with the comment you made to me not to long ago about my being an instinctive "Lutheran." I did not reply to the comment, just smiled. Thinking how much that was on target if you mean Luthers basic reading of Romans and collations. I am not at all "an instinctive Lutheran" if you mean subsequent Lutheranism by that phrase.Luther himself I believe was in the main clearly on target and his exegesis of the Pauline Epistles.

But that wasn't the reason I smile. Rather, my mind was going back to a young man named Randy Carter. He had been in Norristown state hospital and a private mental institution for two long stints. When he came to us in Mechanicsville, he was unable to work in heavily drugged tranquilizers. He was lost impossible to handle.

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