Christian Leader You'd Like to Meet

[JSojourner]

I just pulled these names at random, off the top of my head.  I purposely left out Biblical characters, early church fathers and post-Reformation leaders.  Tried to stick with Europeans in the 500 AD through 1600s.  But shoot -- add whoever you want.  I'm tired...

[Keystone Phil]

Quite a few but I'll say St. Katherine Drexel - a saint who is actually from my neighborhood. 

Her shrine is five minutes down the road in Bucks county and her summer residence is literally thirty seconds up the street from my house.

[War on Want]

Martin Luther definatley.

[Frodo]

St. Augustine -of all the ones mentioned, he seems the most human, and with the most interesting history.  He was born from a pagan father and a Christian mother, tried out various cults before settling on Christianity, and resisted conversion until the last given his reluctance to abandon his sex life.  And that's not even mentioning his most famous works. 

For a conversation on a more intellectual (and less personal) level, I would most like to meet St. Thomas Aquinas and Boethius. 

[Senator Ben]

I want to be a historian, so St. Bede.

[Χahar]

I have to go with Aquinas here.

[Secretary Polnut]

Damn it!

I was having fantasies about chasing Pat Robertson around with a pitchfork.

hmmm probably John Knox - then tell him to take a few valium.

[BushKenya]

You forgot Billy Graham.  He and Billy Sunday (19th century evangelist) would be my choices.

[Χahar]

You forgot Billy Graham.  He and Billy Sunday (19th century evangelist) would be my choices.

They weren't 5th-16th century.

And Billy Sunday was cool, just for playing big-league baseball.

[BushKenya]

You forgot Billy Graham.  He and Billy Sunday (19th century evangelist) would be my choices.

They weren't 5th-16th century.

And Billy Sunday was cool, just for playing big-league baseball.

No, but Graham is still a Christian leader.

But, from that era, I would say John Calvin.

[useful idiot]

Augustine or Aquinas

[JSojourner]

You forgot Billy Graham.  He and Billy Sunday (19th century evangelist) would be my choices.

They weren't 5th-16th century.

And Billy Sunday was cool, just for playing big-league baseball.

Billy Sunday was once asked, "Reverend, can you chew tobacco and go to Heaven?"  Sunday thought a minute and said, "Surely.  But you'd have to go to hell to spit it out."

[12th Doctor]

Either Pope Gregory VII or Pius XII.

[afleitch]

Bishop Spong and St Ignatius of Loyola.