Honoring Professor David Johnson
My Pastoral, Rascally Friend Cynthia L. Rigby
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here is so much to celebrate about David W. Johnson. He has wit and wisdom. He is a great photographer, a lover of animals, a mentor to all. He is my next-door neighbor and friend, so we know things about each other such as how late we get our trash out on Wednesday mornings and what we order from Grubhub (they tend to confuse our deliveries). David watches with us for the breaking forth of the bluebonnets our kids and their friends planted at the border of our front lawns when they were little (one time there was even a rare albino!), and we know how precious his accessible kitchen is to him, because we watched his late spouse, the Reverend Jane Johnson, build it for him, nail by nail and board by board. We have fingerprints of David in our home: a bottle of port sits on each of our children’s dressers—a gift given to them by David when they were born, along
Cynthia Rigby is The W.C. Brown Professor of Theology at Austin Seminary. Dr. Rigby’s latest book is Holding Faith: A Practical Introduction to Christian Faith (Abingdon Press, 2018). She is a general editor of the nine-volume lectionary commentary series, Connections (Westminster John Knox) and is currently completing a book on Christian feminist theology and a book tentatively titled Splashing in Grace: A Theology of Play. 34
