Can I Interest You in a Cup of Coffee?
This article uses a historical narrative about Union soldiers seeking water during the Civil War to draw an analogy about worldly entertainment and its appeal to weary Christians. Dykstra cautions that while Hollywood offerings may seem like a refreshing reprieve from life's hardships, they require discernment regarding their spiritual and moral content.
Brian D. Dykstra The Civil War summer of 1862 had been a very dry one in Kentucky. A Union soldier from Illinois wrote that, after the summer-long drought, creeks and even rivers were “either totally dry or shrunken into little, heated, tired-looking threads of water, brackish and disagreeable to taste and smell.” There was, however, water near the Kentucky town of Perryville. The Union army of the Ohio had endured four months of hard marching. They wanted water and heard that it was...