How to Serve Time
There is a Christian way to study the past without weakening the truth.
Preston Jones | posted 4/02/2001 12:00AM

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In short, we hope that they will keep in mind, as Christians must always remember, that all men and women will finally be judged by One who himself has no judge. The ultimate archives are kept in heaven, and there are no forgeries there.
Preston Jones, a contributing editor for Books & Culture and a book reviewer for the (Canada) National Post and Ottawa Citizen, teaches history at Logos Academy in Dallas.
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Related Elsewhere
See today's related article by Tim Stafford, "Whatever Happened to Christian History?"
Not only does our magazine's Web site have a special history section and a weekly history column, but our sister publication Books & Culture has another history section. In fact, another of our sister publications, Christian History, is devoted to the subject (and is planning a special issue on historiography).
Jones has published in Touchstone, re:generation quarterly, and myriad other publications, but one of his best works was "More Scandals of the Evangelical Mind" for the June/July 1998 issue of First Things.
Other articles by Preston Jones for Christianity Today and our sister publication Books & Culture include:
The Last Frontier? | "'If you see a moose, make sure you don't get between it and its calf.' This postprandial advice was offered to me by my mother-in-law, who knows something about moose … " (B&C, Jul/Aug 2000)
Aliens, A-Bombs, and Mastodons | Travels in Nevada and Colorado (B&C, Jan/Feb 2000)
California Haze | A review of Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future, An Empire Wilderness: Travels Into America's Future, and Eyewitness To the American West (B&C, Sept/Oct 1999)
Lord of the Pets (B&C, Sept/Oct 1998)
My Farrakhan Obsession (B&C, Mar/Apr. 1998)
A Canadian with an Attitude | A profile of Canadian evangelicals that contrasts them with their counterparts in the American South. (CT, Apr. 7, 1997)