The sign on the front lawn of our church identifying us as St. Paul’s Episcopal Church features a graphic of a man in a robe being thrown from a rearing horse. It mystifies people. Just last night my sister asked, “I’ve always wondered why you took that guy on the bucking bronco as your logo?”
It depicts, of course, the moment of Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus, when a bright light flashes around him and Jesus speaks to him, saying, “Saul, Saul. why are you persecuting me?” But most people these days have never read the story – or if they have it was so many years ago that they’ve forgotten it.
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