So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest but was appointed by the one who said to him, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you”; as he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.” [Hebrews 5:5-6]. In 1969-70, during my freshman year at Wake Forest, one could drive one’s car from Winston-Salem to Gastonia in a bit less than three hours (the Interstate system hadn’t yet been completed). Of course, that fact was mostly theoretical for me. I didn’t have a car to drive. And, even if I had, it would have made little difference;…
"Dispatches to the Front" -- a collection of theological meditations by Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., M.Div.