The Letter and the Spirit

The Letter and the Spirit
2 CORINTHIANS 3.1-6

‘I had to write a letter of recommendation last week. One of my former students is job-hunting, and the people who run the college he has applied to don’t know him, or not very well; so it is up to me to write to them, in a formal way, to set out the qualifications of the man concerned, as well as the less easily definable things that we loosely call ‘character’. Even though in the modern world people can find out a good deal about one another by various other means, we still rely quite a lot, in making appointments, on official letters...