Unexpected treasures.I always find Commonweal com·mon·weal n. 1. The public good or welfare. 2. Archaic A commonwealth or republic. Noun 1. worth reading, but sometimes there are treasures beyond the unexpected. One was "The Faith of a Doctor." Dr. Abraham Nussbaum's categories forced me to apply his paradigm to myself as a pastor: How do I see people? Another was William Burton's "Buried Treasure buried treasure - A surprising piece of code found in some program. While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from crufty to bletcherous, and has lain undiscovered only because it was functionally correct, however horrible it is. " (April 6), about the need for systematic, informed Bible study. I have been leading a weekly ecumenical Bible study for about eighteen years with students from a wide spectrum of confessions. We have found that it would be difficult to guess one another's confessional background from our comments and insights. Burton's article was a wonderful endorsement of hardnosed Bible study (I have found my own parish delights in such courses), but there is a special delight in doing it in an intercon-fessional setting. VERN VERN Vernal RATZLAFF Saskatoon Saskatoon (săskət  n`), city (1991 pop. 186,058), S central Sask., Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. , Saskatchewan
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