Forthcoming titles explore the benefits of forgiveness, chronicle the lives of religious luminaries, opine on the political consequences of Christian conservatism, and dig into the theology of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Late afternoon sunlight filtered through stained-glass windows on pianist Yekwon Sunwoo. Lovely though it was, it didn’t soften his sparkling melody or distract from his clear phrasing. In fact, the
I was not expecting the question, since for months she had repeatedly instructed me to focus on the immediate, an instruction I found easy to obey. The protracted pain of a marriage that floundered and failed when I was in my twenties had excised the delusion that the most important elements of my future were under my control. But now Sister pressed me to think ahead: “It wasn’t time before, but now it’s time. What are you going to do with this education of yours?”
To my complete surprise, the answer was out of my mouth before I had time to consider: “I need to teach, preach, and exercise a pastoral ministry.”