Real Faith Is Refined In The Fires

Stories Are Verbal Acts Of Hospitality.

In High School I Was Very Much Involved In Poetry. You Cannot Read A Poem Quickly. There's Too Much Going On There. There Are Rhythms And Alliterations. You Have To Read Poetry Slow, Slow, Slow To Absorb It All.

Pastors Need To Know What's Going On In The World And What Has Been Going On For 4,000 Years. We Need A Way To Read Scripture Which Is Imaginative, Interpretive.

I Believe God Takes The Things In Our Lives - Family, Background, Education - And Uses Them As Part Of His Calling. It Might Not Be To Become A Pastor. But I Don't Think God Wastes Anything.

The Poor Are Not A Problem To Be Solved But A People To Join.