Author: Jerry Gill

  • MY FRIEND KARL SODERSTROM DIED THE OTHER DAY

    Our friendship goes back to Seminary days in the late 1950s. We had several classes together and used to do shoot-arounds in the funky basement of the gym of the seminary on East 49th street in Manhattan. We found that we thought a lot alike on many theological and related issues. I never met Karls’…

  • JIM THORPE, NATIVE AMERICAN ALL-AMERICAN

    Most folks do not know much if anything about Jim Thorpe, one of the greatest athletes of all time. He was raised on an Indian Reservation in Oklahoma and educated at the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, PA. Jim Thorpe became an all-around all-star athlete during the early years of the 20th Century. He starred…