From pulpit to dugout

(from Bobby)

If you read this blog, it's no surprise to you that I am a big baseball fan. So, it's probably no surprise that I jumped at the opportunity to travel to Florida and write about minister Terry Rush at St. Louis Cardinals' fantasy baseball camp.

I wrote a freelance story for the Tulsa World about Terry's Cardinals' ministry that you can find here. My thanks to sports editor Mike Strain, a former colleague of mine at The Oklahoman, for his interest in the story. (At some point in the editing process, "the Rev." got added before Terry's name, and the word "pastor" was used in the headline. Obviously, I know better than that, but it's not the end of the world, although I may receive an e-mail or two trying to persuade me that it is.) We'll have a bigger, better story on this in the next Chronicle.



While in the Sunshine State, I also visited with students and administrators at Florida College near Tampa (which is a Christian college with indirect ties to non-institutional Churches of Christ) and interviewed folks with the Hispanic ministry at the Palm Beach Lakes church in West Palm Beach. Both those stories will be published in the next few months, too.