Lake Neuron

I have been a long-time subscriber to the Wittenburg Door, and I was a long-time contributor until a few years ago, when I just sort of drifted away. I still may write for them again one of these days, if they’ll have me, but I haven’t been doing so lately, and I have nothing on the table.

Anyway, all that is neither here nor there. I got an mass e-mail today from Robert Darden about someone, who has been one of the key players for the magazine ever since it was transferred to the Trinity Foundation. I don’t think that Bob would mind me quoting from it:

Harry Guetzlaff, The Door’s wonderful managing editor, who I have worked with on a daily basis since Trinity began publishing the magazine, is apparently in his final weeks. He has Stage 4 lung cancer and the most recent MRI found new masses on his brain and spine. He is in great pain and only lucid for a short period each day.

I dealt with Bob more often than I dealt with Harry, but I did deal some with Harry, and he was unfailingly kind, cheerful and upbeat.

The magazine’s staff is so small and Harry was so central to it that the print version of the magazine has been running behind schedule and its future may even be in question. But that’s secondary. Please take a moment to pray for Harry.

Bob Gersztyn’s terrific remembrance of Larry Norman anchors the Wittenburg Door’s coverage of the iconoclastic Christian rock legend.

I just got through listening to Bob Darden’s interview on Talk Of The Nation, and you need to hear it too. As I posted the other day, I know Bob as editor of The Wittenburg Door, but with his full-time employer, Baylor University, he is helping to preserve the legacy of black gospel music.

Robert Darden, the editor of the Wittenburg Door, has been, to quote an e-mail he sent me, “very involved with an effort to save the fast-disappearing recorded legacy of black gospel music.” His day job is at Baylor University, and he’s established a project at Baylor for this purpose.

Well, to mark the 75th anniversary of the song “Precious Lord, Take My Hand,” Bob will be on the NPR show “Talk of the Nation” Monday at about 2:40 p.m. Central time (3:40 Eastern). His segment will last until the top of the hour. Tune in, or listen online at your convenience, won’t you?

The Door has posted the links to both of its Madeleine L’Engle interviews, so here — as promised — are the links to them:

• 1986 interview
• 2000 interview