After almost 50 years, Pam and I have lunch with perhaps our favorite college professor, Dr. Stan Walters. I devote a chapter to him and his course on Basic Christianity we were required to take at Greenville College in the mid-1960s. We met at a Holiday Inn Restaurant called The French Quarter near Toledo, Ohio.
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| Pam Williams, Dr. Stan Walters, Stan Williams meet after 47 years. |
Walter's virtue was (and still is) his ability to make Christianity rational. At heart and by training a Biblical scholar expert in cuneiform languages (i.e. formed with "wedges" in the wet clay. Cruciform is a good word, meaning "in the form of a cross.") Walters was ordained a Free Methodist minister but became a Presbyterian in order to accept a teaching position in the Presbyterian Church in Canada. He candidly admitted that one of the reasons he left Greenville was its rejection of his rational approach to Christianity. As I argue in the book it's impossible to separate Christian Faith and Reason. Thank you, Dr. Walters.
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