Pastor's Corner: Blushing at my Bible

What’s one of your favorite Bible passages that almost never gets read at church?

For me, it’s Song of Songs, better known as Song of Solomon. I know why it’s rarely mentioned in church: on the surface, it is an erotic love poem. There’s a woman and a man in a garden — and things are going down in the garden! In this famous — and infamous — little book, we find lines like 1:2, where the woman says to the man, “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for thy love is better than wine.” When the man describes the woman in chapter 7, we hear juicy similes: “You are stately as a palm tree, an...