Read "Real Live Preacher"

If you haven't been reading Real Live Preacher, do yourself a favor and start today. I mean right now, stop reading Minor Wisdom for a minute, click on the link, and read RLP.

What, you're still here? You need more convincing? Okay. Besides being a superb writer, he may be one of the most compassionate. Consider these recent posts:

• Today, he reveals his lifelong battle against depression and his recent decision to try medication.
• On May 27, he wept for someone deeply wounded by "people who call themselves Christians even as they elevate rules, doctrines, and theology above grace, mercy, and compassion."
• On May 12, he wrote of the Fractured Family of Men, a meditation on seeing two gay men in a restaurant.

Read his life's journey, titled The Preacher's Story. Trust me, it's worth your time.

RLP is Gordon Atkinson, who is indeed a real-live preacher—Baptist, no less. A wounded healer who doesn't mind showing us his wounds.