Walt Albritton Articles

What ‘Surrender to Jesus’ means

BY WALT ALBRITTON OPINION — Submit to God. Humble yourself. Admit you need help. Surrender to Jesus. Ask Jesus to take over management of your life. This is the attitude one must have to become an authentic follower of Jesus. But pride stands in the way. Pride says,...

Did you catch any fish?

OPINION — Peter and his brother Andrew were fishermen. One day, when they were busy casting their nets in the Sea of Galilee, Jesus walked by. Jesus invited the two men to follow him, and added this promise: “I will make you fishers of men.” Their response, as...

Life together

OPINION — After he was hanged by the Gestapo in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s writings became a treasured testimony for Christians around the world. None has blessed me more than his book, Life Together, in which he shares his experience of Christian community during...

The farmer Jesus unchained

OPINION — What happened to Simon Peter can only be explained by the life-changing power of Jesus Christ. The leader of the twelve disciples chosen by Jesus, Peter had a gift for putting his foot in his mouth. Once Jesus rejected Peter’s counsel so strongly that he...
Homo Unius Libri

Homo Unius Libri

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION ― Circulating among Methodists lately has been a video of a United Methodist drag queen denouncing the Bible. Openly...

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Homo Unius Libri

God’s Best Gifts

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION― Years ago I sometimes laughed and said I was disappointed in James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family. My four...

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Homo Unius Libri

Belonging Matters

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION— Three of my siblings were born in a hospital. My sister Neva and I were born at home, a humble home in the country 12...

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Homo Unius Libri

Listen Up!

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — Dozens of football players are on the practice field exercising. They are talking to each other. Suddenly they hear a...

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It’s Your Main Business

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — He was dead, sealed in a borrowed tomb. Two days later, the earth trembles, the stone rolls away, and Jesus walks...

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