Back in 1960 I had the opportunity to hear Paul Tillich lecture and meet Reinhold Niebuhr. Tillich’s lecture was at Unitarian Church of All Souls. His topic was “Religious Existentialism”, and the place was packed. Tillich began, with a heavy German accent, in this wise: “I want to begin with a very paradoxical statement. There…

When I was a boy, my mother visited NYC two or three times and ever since then it has been a mysterious mecca for me. I finally went to NYC in the fall of 1957 to study at the Biblical Seminary of New York. For the first two years I commuted on the Long Island…