The first was Reverend Elton Richards, my friend David’s father, who just retired as minister of his Lutheran congregation in Des Moines, Iowa. He calls himself a “pastor out to pasture.” I told him about the doubters. “You just have to tell them that you have a hunger and a thirst. And you may not sit at the same banquet table as them, but you have a hunger and thirst. So they shouldn’t judge you.”
