![]() ![]() It is fine to use static images, but rarely if ever for the Gospel because the good news about Jesus of Nazareth is always doing something, changing us, being busy in our lives. The Gospel is leading somewhere, it changes us and everything we are and do. The Gospel JV insisted was not like a house, it was like a bridge or better yet Robert Frost’s “The Road not Taken” or “Stopping by a Woods on a Snowy Evening,” speaking of roads we traveled and "promises to keep." One of the things he talked about that day was using images in preaching and how important it was to make sure that when speaking about the Gospel our images were dynamic and not static. During that time had some additional contact with JV through a group that worked across the various colleges in New Haven.įinally, after having made my way through college and during seminary in Gettysburg JV came to Gettysburg to speak about preaching and the task or art of preaching. I returned home to attend school in CT and improve my academic record and I found JV at Yale University having replaced William Sloane Coffin there. After my freshman year I changed colleges as I was invited to do since I had not taken seriously my academic responsibilities. ![]() When I attended college sometime near the end of the first millennium the wonderful Lutheran pastor and preacher, John Vannorsdall, or “JV” as we knew him, was my college chaplain. It is at once intended to evoke the static and dynamic. The title of this blog is intentionally vague and linguistically awkward. ![]()
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