Technically Ken Monroe was not my first college professor, but he was by the far the best professor I had while an undergraduate student. He had come to Westmont a few years before me after a long career at a well-known Bible Institute, with a doctorate from Pittsburg Theological Seminary. He taught Bible and Theology,…

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’…