The Rev. Karl Hess is Pastor of Emmaus Lutheran Church in Redmond, Oregon. He is a voice crying in the wilderness of the Northwestern US and has recently launched a blog titled “The American Martyr.”

I strongly encourage you to read his inaugural article.

Excerpt:
For eighteen years I have been standing on the walls of Jerusalem watching the city burn and its children carried away captive into paganism or heterodox churches. During that time most of the watchmen, seeing the ruin, have desperately tried to do everything in their power to take away the offense of the cross. They have tried to make Christianity easier, so that no one would be repelled, no one would fall away, everyone would be attracted.