For five days in the summer of 1979 I was an expert on the Bible.
Although I was humble about my status, my fellow pre-seminarians attending Vacation Bible School at East Cisco Baptist Church were awed by the agility with which I wielded my knowledge. We would sit restlessly through the flannelgraph-aided stories of Noah, Joseph, and David, waiting for the event that would put my considerable skills to the test: Bible speed drills.
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