The Rev. Dr. Graham Walker is co-pastor with his wife, Mimi, of Druid Hills Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA. He is also professor of theology and philosophy at McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University in Atlanta. Earlier the Walkers were co-pastors of Northwoods Baptist Church in Chamblee, GA.
The son of missionaries to Singapore, Graham was educated at Florida State University, and earned both the master of divinity and doctor of philosophy degrees from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. Graham came to McAfee in 1999 after teaching at Asia Baptist Graduate Theological Seminary in the Philippines for 12 years.
"As he finished praying, one of his disciples said, 'Lord teach us to pray as John taught his disciples to pray.'" The disciple approaches Jesus as a matter of observation and comparison.
This one disciple articulates what we all know privately within ourselves; we are an ambiguous construction of earth and spirit. We are as grounded as the adamah (the red clay) out of which we are drawn and we are as free as the nephesh (the wind) that fills our lungs. We are grounded spirits, the middle point of creation as Plato describes us. One testimony to this inner ambiguity is our felt anxiety over how we should then live. There seems to be no inner gyroscope to provide balance and orientation in our human life.
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