HENRY T. CLOSE is a gifted therapist, teacher, and writer, a Diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors currently working as a pastoral counselor in Florida after many years on the staff of the Georgia Mental Health Clinic in Atlanta. His special interest in the world of intimacy is reflected in the two sermons in this volume. A New Perspective developed from an allegory he wrote for his wife Nancy. (See VOICES: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy, Summer, 1979, "A Boy and His Kite.") In it he attempts to help us understand the shift in frame of reference, or the mind’s imagination, that is involved with our being caught up in "faith" or "belief."

Most of you here are old enough to remember what it was like to ride trains. Maybe you’ve had the same experience I’ve had. Y…