Holy Tuesday

"Respect is man's astonishment, humility and awe when he meets something superior that is majesty, dignity, holiness,..and a mystery...." - Karl Barth

I am moving many of my books from my office and rectory to my home. Others I am giving to a new seminary that’s opening in Tanzania. This means I pull them off of the shelves, sneeze at the release of accumulated dust, and marvel at either the age of the volume or that fact that I never got around to reading it.

One volume in particular snagged my atte…