I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for… — James Green Somerville Copy Share Image
My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when… — James Green Somerville Copy Share Image
There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally ill.… — James Green Somerville Copy Share Image
I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of… — James Green Somerville Copy Share Image
I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still… — James Green Somerville Copy Share Image
Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every… — James Green Somerville Copy Share Image
I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while… — James Green Somerville Copy Share Image
While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made… — James Green Somerville Copy Share Image
I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a… — James Green Somerville Copy Share Image
