Thief in the Night appears in Martinsville
Written by ry on March 7th, 2006
I can’t say that I really know what to make of this column by ordained minister George Plagenz in the Martinsville Reporter-Times. Little more than a book report for William Sears’ ‘Thief in the Night’, the column runs back over Sears’ investigations into the Great Disappointment and his subsequent discovery of the Baha’i Faith. The book is certainly a classic in the Baha’i community and has led many people to the Faith (I remember it explaining the Biblical prophesies around the second coming of Christ very simply and clearly, though I haven’t read it in years), but I’m not sure what would move Mr Plagenz to write about it now, 45 years after it was first published. Perhaps he just found a copy of it at the church rummage sale?
For those of us who came into the Baha'i Faith through the ever popular 
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no clue how you find some of these reports and postings but congrats this last one was very interesting.
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Plagenz is a syndicated columnist who often writes on religion topics. He used to work as a minister before becoming a journalist.
From the looks of his column, he must have gone to a Baha’i event and read some booklets. I think he probably chose this Thief-in-the-Night angle because it would be the most intriguing to his readers (”here are a bunch of people who think the Second Coming already happened!”), and because he could identify with his fellow journalist Sears.