Rev. Bowen served as pastor of Kenilworth Union Church for 37 years. During his tenure, the church expanded its reach throughout Chicago’s North Shore communities and was noted for its youth ministries. But why was it important to me? I suppose that’s where I should people because they made the mistake of letting the women and come back. Because interestingly enough, after my studies at children go when they wiped out a village. It’s there in Joshua; you Wheaton, I had real problems with the idea of a Bible that was can read it for yourself. There were all kinds of problems without error and that was to be understood literally. In a sense, like that. So what McCormick Seminary did for me is give me ironically Wheaton College pulled the rug out from under me in a way to hang on to the central message, without necessarily terms of—I’ll say this very simply—my capacity to approach the swallowing all the problems in the Bible. I forgot who it was that Bible that way. Now, I say it exactly that way because I realize said, maybe it was Mark Twain, “I don’t have problems with things that there are people who can approach it that way. Probably a I don’t understand in the Bible, I have problems with things I do lot more people who can than can’t, if you’re talking about the understand.” There is a message that has integrity in the biblical larger Protestant population in this country. You know the good text, that can be found and defended because it is coherent, it is southern Baptist has no di昀케culty with that. But by the time I reality-speci昀椀c, and it’ll make a di昀昀erence in your life if you trust it. got through, in some respects I made the mistake of reading That’s sort of where I came out of McCormick. the whole Bible. And I could not handle a God who punished his 2023 ANNUAL REPORT 25