Village Voices - We don't write papers, we build scrapbooks

When I was still in high school I had a brother who was going to college with plans of being a pastor someday. On a trip home from Chicago one weekend, a salesman was on the farm and asked him what he was studying at school? He said he was studying to be a minister. I remember that guy’s response. He said: “Oh - that’s good. You’ll have job security because everybody has problems all the time and we all need a pastor.” I hadn’t really thought of being a pastor as somebody who would be helping people with their problems all the time. Maybe it was because at that stage in my life...