Icould tell even before opening the door of the sauna at the local YMCA that the conversation was lively.

“Meet our new young resident philosopher,” a friend said to me as I entered.

I sat down, and our philosopher said, “There is a difference between right and wrong, on the one hand, and truth and falsehood, on the other.” Then he left. Not having been there long enough to grasp the context of what had come before, I was on my own to interpret what he meant.

In more than two decades as a pastor at two Duluth congregations before retirement, I often began sermons by recalling a conversation that had occurred in the sauna the previous week. These came to be dubbed “sauna theology.” It has always been my contention that all conversations have moral and theological implications.

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