A Place to Stand

<p>D. Elton Trueblood (1900-1994) authored 37 books and was called the Dean of American Religious Writing in the 20th century. This being his most important book served as a quarter-century sequel to <em>Mere Christianity</em> by C.S. Lewis. Trueblood taught at Guilford Haverford and Earlham and he served as chaplain at Stanford where he met regularly with Herbert Hoover. As founder of the Yokefellows movement he designed a discipline for believers embracing the yoke of Christ (Matthew 11:29) established prison ministries and developed programs for turning the local church into a seminary believing that every Christian is a minister.</p>