The Mentor
Cover of the Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning “Maybe you should listen. I believe God is calling you.” Father William said. “He has been for quite a while.” A priest, a friend, they sat on a wall outside the campus library, one a student with a copy of the ‘Ragamuffin Gospel’ written by Brennan Manning in hand, the other working campus ministry. The season of spring was encroaching in the Northeast and the April afternoon was warmer than usual. The sun reached out from the cloudless sky like gentle fingers wanting to caress. “I’ve questioned a lot in the last few years.” “But never your faith,” the priest added. “No I’ve never doubted why Jesus died. I’ve never doubted who He was… or is. It’s the law that makes us stumble… makes me stumble. And some of those laws… I can’t find any basis for them.” “You see them as manmade.” “I see us as modern day Pharisees, honoring laws and dogmas more than we honor the word of God. Someti...