(Buddy Smith recalls the following story told by James Crumpton 51 years ago in a Bible conference.) When I came out of Seminary with a degree in higher criticism and was newly ordained as the bishop of a wealthy parish in Boston, I often met for dinner with Bob _____, one of my former classmates. We both graduated from a very modern seminary, not evangelical at all. We scoffed at “Bible – thumpers” and their beliefs. Our professors had laboured to explain away all the miracl