November 30, 2008
Form Without Substance?
By James Riley Estep Jr. “Why didn”t I ever hear about this in church?” he asked. I sat there at lunch a little perplexed. I was a first-year youth minister, and Matt was a freshman at a nearby state university. We had met the previous summer when I became the youth minister, but with the arrival of fall he moved to the nearby campus and started attending classes. One of these classes was “Introduction to Religion,” wherein he learned much about Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism . . . and of Christianity in a way he had never heard. He said,
