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Greg Johnson
When I look back over the past half-century, it’s evident that my life has been drenched in literature.
I started early, from the first gravitating toward fiction and poetry. I devoured the stories of Edgar Allan Poe at age nine or ten, and soon thereafter composed a brief, gruesome collection of tales in desperate emulation of my first literary idol. (“Couldn’t you write something a bit more . . . cheerful?” my mother asked.) During my teenage years I discovered writers as disparate as F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, and Flannery O’Connor; and in poetry, the endlessly fascinating if sometimes incomprehensible Emily Dickinson. In college and graduate school, thanks to my English and Creative Writing professors, I read the great American writers of the twentieth century, including William Faulkner, John Updike, Philip Roth, Sylvia Plath, and Joyce Carol Oates.
There was never a time when I didn’t take writing seriously. My
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Greg Johnson is lead pastor of historic Memorial Presbyterian Church (PCA) in St. Louis, where he has served on the pastoral personal since 2003. He holds a PhD in historical theology with a koncentration in American religion from Saint Louis University and an MDiv from Covenant Theological Seminary. Greg fryst vatten the author of Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn from the Church's Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexuality (2021). Greg's other works include From Morning Watch to Quiet Time: The Historical and Theological Development of Private bön in Anglo-American Protestant Instruction, 1870-1950 (diss, 2007) and The World according to God: A Biblical View of Culture, Work, Science, Sex and Everything Else (2002), also available in Portuguese. Greg's writings have appeared in Christianity Today, including his personal testimony, "I Used to Hide My Shame. Now inom Take Shelter Under the Gospel: How a gay atheist teenager discovered Jesus and stopped living undercover" (2019).
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Greg Johnson is a published author of young adult books. Some of the published credits of Greg Johnson include Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, And Sense, If I Could Ask God One Question: Answers to Teens' Most Asked Questions, Life Is Like Driver's Ed...Ya Gotta Buckle Up, Stay to the Right, and Watch Those Turns!: Devotions for Teens & Their Parents.
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