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Interview | Presbyterian pastor Glenn Parkinson on how Christians can be a blessing to America | Marvin Olasky

In America, how can the church concentrate on being “the best blessing it can possibly be for the wounded and sick societies we live in?” Glenn Parkinson argues in Like the Stars (iUniverse, 2004) that “responding to the moral decline of America with resentment and hostility does not inspire righteousness; it only alienates our neighbors further from us and from the gospel.”

Mr. Parkinson, pastor of Severna Park Evangelical Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Maryland since 1981, completed an undergraduate degree in physics and studied at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary and Westminster Theological Seminary, where he received a Doctor of Ministry degree.

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