Getting out of bed was a tremendous effort, and she realized that she was seriously sick. There was no way she could lead a service that morning. She managed to call the District Superintendent but got his answering machine. She called Joe Englehard, chair of the pastor-parish committee, to tell him that she couldn’t make it. “You know, David Blake?” she croaked. “Professor Blake? He’s an ordained minister. See if he can lead the service.” Then she crawled back to bed. By then, she was shivering, and the blankets didn’t seem to help.Blake called Wednesday. “This is David. I hope you are feeling better.”“Better. Not good.”“I’ve been going through the Old Testament -- Lectio Divina -- so I preached on Exodus. It wasn’t a passage from the lectionary, but you didn’t give me much warning.”“I didn’t have much warning, myself.”“Well, they were kind afterwards. They did get some sort of service. Anyway, Sunday is the first Sunday of December. You celebrate Communion on the first Sunday of. His seatmate knew the men sitting across from David, and the chatter was too frequent to allow him to really get into his book.For that matter, the book was a long, slow, slog at the best of times. He’d half-written a book on Paul’s teaching about marriage before he’d begun being counseled for his own upcoming marriage. Reverend Campbell’s advice, not surprising in itself, piqued his curiosity. Where had the parts of Christian teaching about marriage that postdated Paul come from?From that single question, the book he would call Christian Marriage, Evolution of an Ideal had grown like Topsy. (At least he would call it that if he could find a publisher. David Blake’s opinion on Paul was one thing; he had a PhD in New Testament studies and taught the Epistles at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. David Blake’s opinion on church history wasn’t worth shit, and he knew that; he had no credentials in church history.) The Middle Ages had been fascinating, as had been the Reformation..
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