The few days back American baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson Day, #42 to honor the first Black major league baseball player. Most folks have heard about Jackie but many do not know how truly amazing he was, as a person, ballplayer, and American citizen. Although I was never really a baseball player, I grew up fully…

Here’s another story from my old fundamentalist college days. We began each class period with a brief devotional thought offered by one of the students. One day in one of my classes it was this fellow Skip Loomis’ turn to present yet another devotional thought. We faced several of these every day, in addition to…