Many of you know by now that Dallas Willard died this past Wednesday.

Willard’s influence on American Christianity was both deep and wide.

It was my privilege to interview him for an entire hour on two separate occasions.  The first book of his I read was Spirit of the Disciplines.  It was the late 1980s and I was going through it with a new staff member of Cru at Stanford.  It remains my favorite Willard book.

There are many laudatory things being said about Dallas Willard.  John Ortberg’s piece is worth reading:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2013/may-web-only/man-from-another-time-zone.html?start=1