Writings
I find it fascinating that in the very same week St. Christopher has been called into question by the Roman Catholic Church, I should be standing up to preach a sermon inspired, in no small part, by a love affair that many of us have with the automobile. For St. Christopher has long been revered as the patron saint of drivers.
Most jobs around the church I feel called to do. Some jobs around the church I get paid to do. But other jobs around the church, I volunteer to do them….either because they’re there….or I’m there….or you’re not there….or whatever.
A few Fridays back, Jeff Nelson graduated from Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, one of our thirteen United Methodist schools of theology, where it is neatly nestled on the Lake Michigan lakeshore, cradled in the northernmost bosom of Northwestern University.
Whenever people back me into a corner as regards my understanding of scripture, I am often led to say: “I take all of the Bible seriously. But I do not take every word of the Bible literally.” Which Bryant Oskvig would understand.
