Guest Post: “On Textual Mastication and Being a Sommelier of the Scriptures”

Brad Sumner is a pastor in Canada, and a student together with me in Portland Seminary's Doctor of Ministry program in Semiotics. In our program, we read lots of deep and heady books, then comment on them to each other in a weekly forum. In the following post, Brad ruminates on wisdom garnered from Jean Leclerq's The Love of Learning and The Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture