SPdL memories: chapel choir, the volleyball games between Sunday School classes, and mighty mites. Church softball at Northside Drive Baptist Church (more on that later). Camp SPdL and the three choir tours (Colorado twice, NY once) I went on. John Condra was just talking about my contributions to those. The secret prayer partners on tour and at camp. Switching roommates on tour, like the one time with Scott Atchison. They asked him what he wanted for breakfast. He replied “quiche lorrane!”.
The Whitakers would wear the matching outfits for cruises, and wear them to the “Family Fun Night” at SPdL in the fellowship hall. Those were good times for me, back during college especially and later in my single days. I came on the scene too late for most of the SPdL picnics at Chastain Park.
More memories: being in children’s choir at Northminster Presbyterian in Macon, and later youth group and Six Flags trips with director Jim McNaul. Church camp, once in west Georgia, once in east Georgia. High school football and Baskin Robbins.
GT BSU and spring and fall BSU conventions at Rock Eagle. Earlier tips to Rock Eagle on church retreats. Years later I went back to Rock Eagle to chaperone Condra’s junior high choir. State science fair in 9th grade, road tripping to Athens with classmates. College road trips to Athens and Knoxville and Dalonegah. BSU squaredances. Family road trips to NW Missouri. BSU mission trips to Elmira NY, Terri Haute Indiana, and Gatlinburg / Seviereville. Singles retreats to Ridgecrest and Gulf Shores.
Trips with Ceil: Bermuda, NYC, Richmond, Chicago, LA, Destin, Hilton Head, Virginia, the outer banks, Boston, and Maine. Myrtle Beach with the extended Miller family. School trips with the kids to Jekyll, St Augustine, Cape Canaveral, Gulf Shores, Tybee, and St. Georges Island. Trips with Anna to the zoo. Baseball trips with Will to Cooperstown, Nashville, Knoxville, and Panama City. Anna's zoo trip. Concert trips with Matthew to Chattanooga, Atlanta, and Marietta. Family trips to Washington, San Francisco, Destin.
Work trips to Houston, Little Rock, Greensboro, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, Birmingham, Charlotte, Dallas, Tulsa, Chicago, Indianapolis, Kentucky, Chattanooga, Memphis, Richmond, Ft. Smith, Jacksonville, Shreveport. I usually turn them into adventures.
And now, playing with Shivonne. W&MCs wedding. A&C's wedding. Spending time with the kids. These are the good old days.
DENISON: C. S. Lewis was adamant that we should embrace Christianity not because it happens to work in practice but because it is truth. Otherwise we are in danger of what he identified in The Screwtape Letters as the “Christianity and” heresy. If we make our faith a means to another end, then God is no longer our Lord but rather an object we use for our purposes. John Stonestreet is right: Ideas have consequences, and bad ideas have victims. However long and hard the struggle might be, truth wins. Biblical morality is right because it is true. Christianity’s long-term legacy in mainstream culture depends on how current legal and cultural debates evolve.” So does the larger place of evangelicals in our post-Christian culture. If, as current trends indicate, we are increasingly identified with KKK members and other racists as bigoted and dangerous to society, our future in American society is unclear at best.
JOE DiMAGGIO [SABR Bio] coached the A’s in hitting for two seasons, in 1968-69. He was on the Orioles board of directors during the ownership period of Edward Bennett Williams, 1977-88. Joe beat Al Simmons’ record for the most RBI in a major leaguer’s first ten seasons. From 1936 through 1948 DiMaggio racked up 1,277 RBI (he missed three years due to military service - 1943-45). Simmons had 1,276 RBI from 1924-1933. Joe led the majors in triples as a rookie, but never again. He had 15 triples in 1936. He averaged double figures per season, but never led again. He wore number 9 as a rookie, then 5 for the rest of his career.
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