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Russell E. Saltzman

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As seen in: Aleteia, First Things, Patheos, Catholic News Service, The Catholic Herald, Catholic World Report, Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity
Former Lutheran pastor now Roman Catholic. Web columnist at Aleteia.org, Church World Report, some time contributor at FirstThings.com; writer; father of seven.
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On Sermons: Abishag, King David’s bed warmer

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By Russell E. Saltzman Verified
| Catholic News Service
By Russell E. Saltzman Now King David was old, well on in years. They would cover him up, but he could not get warm. So his servants said to him, “My lord, the king, let a young virgin be found for you to attend to you and to care for you. She can lie alongside of you so that my lord, the king, can keep warm.” And so they searched for a beautiful young girl all throughout the territory of Israel, and they found Abishag the Shunamite, and they brought her to the king.
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Looking toward life with Parkinson's

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By Russell E. Saltzman Verified
| Aleteia Verified
Dmytro Zinkevych | Shutterstock My mood veers between gritty cheerfulness and angry sardonic humor. I do not, as I announced some many months ago, have vascular dementia. That was the result of a misdiagnosis. Not to worry, though, I have something else, something I can – speaking altogether ironically – live with. It is Parkinson’s disease.
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Why you should know the Church Fathers and how to do it

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By Russell E. Saltzman Verified
| Aleteia Verified
There were a thousand things they had to figure out, like inventing a vocabulary to describe who they were and what they did and how they went about doing it. When I was a Lutheran seminarian we rarely looked at the Church Fathers, almost never.
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