Letters from Aberdeen

In 1636, Scottish pastor Samuel Rutherford was stripped of his pulpit and banished to the remote city of Aberdeen. The authorities meant it as punishment — exile from everything he loved. They expected silence. Instead, Rutherford wrote letters. Hundreds of them. And from that cold northern exile, the most extraordinary language poured out. "I have found the sweetness of Christ's love in my bonds," he wrote to a friend.…