James W. Green

Through the Church Door

“"are honest only when earned." In this intense little book, he meditates on theological words and themes that have framed a lifetime of teaching, as an admired professor, and in retirement as a Congregational minister. Honesty requires troubling complacent students with the ambiguities of Hawthorne and Melville, and comforting the troubled in smoky bars and at hospital beds. Honest language leads to freedom, something he starkly reveals at the end of this book.”