Mystic Monday: Rufus Jones [1863-1948]
"There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself." - Jones
I had never heard of him. It turns out there was a rather large hole in my education.
When in my first parish in Pennsylvania, I served on a local committee made up of representatives of the town’s seven congregations; the usual gang of Prots, a couple of Romans, and one friend. That is, Friend.1
It was from him that I learned of the sublime art of taking…