Emphasis Preaching Journal

Robert Gard, long-time professor of theater and drama at the University of Wisconsin, was sitting in my study one day as we talked about the theatre's popular "Job." A philosopher and dramatist, a writer and sage, Bob's friends discovered that his droll humor often couched surprising wisdom. "Sometimes I think the whole problem of evil is the richest part of God's creation." That's what his Kansas dialect proclaimed. I encouraged him to go on. "Bob, you've seen it all," I said.