Month: May 2021

My wife and I were recently in conversation with my brother and sister-in-law. As is often the case on such occasions, there were stories about our long-deceased father; a veteran of World War II who died from a war-related illness when my brother and I were young children. In the midst of our reflections, my…

In the summer of 1972, I was a graduate student in the Divinity School of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.The summer program included practical application of class work to local church settings in many rural and urban settings. That summer I was an intern in a relatively quiet, North Carolina, small town in which…