An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

liked her and later took a preaching class from her. I
prefer a more spontaneous, black preaching style to
the manuscript writing and reading style taught at
SFTS.
I studied Reformed Theology, a required
course at SFTS, with Ben Reist. I managed to get
through it with a B without reading Calvin and Barth,
two pillars of reformed theology who I found boring.
I much preferred Tillich and others.
Ben said, “If you’re going to study the Bible,
you should cut the leather covers and gilt edges off of
it. It’s a book, and should be read as such.” “The best
way to study theology is to open a bottle of wine or
pour a glass of brandy.” “If a little Buddha rubs off on
Jesus and a little Jesus rubs off on Buddha, so much
the better for both of them.” “Reformed theology is
reformed and ever reforming. It is not stuck in a rut or
carved in granite.”
I worked during the summer, and my son John
came to stay with us for a few weeks. I always
wanted him to be with me full time, but that didn’t
happen. Driving him back and forth kept us in touch
with friends in Ashland.
Presbyterians at SFTS had to take and pass
both Hebrew and Greek. As a UCC student, I just had
to pass one or the other. I tried Hebrew for a couple of
weeks and dropped out. It was too hard. I took Basic
Greek I in the fall of 1989 and passed. There was a
month long Basic Greek II class that I was supposed
to take in the intersession where we would do nothing
but Greek for a month.
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