was a pastor or leader in ministry? I did not know it at that time, but I would soon have to answer such a question in a painful and public way. For the moment, however, among those ministry students, with grief in my heart and soberly confronting my assumptions about what it meant to lead in ministry, it was now my turn to speak. I breathed a quick prayer and stood. That’s when I said it. “Jonathan Edwards farted.” Some laughed. I didn’t. Some smirked at my irreverence. Maybe I was irreverent. I