One, Ken Satterfield talks about his father's experience. There is no way you could call Sattefrield, or myself for that matter, to the manor born in Baptist life. I saw several nice things about the promise of the church and name two outstanding women, one a hs classmate of my Mother that showed early promise of the church.
I hope Dave Roberts gets a copy of the book soon, Very interested in reading his take on my effort and the others; and Thornton for that matter as well.
Dave, send me an email. Keith get my emaiul to Dave. I will try to get Dave a copy a shared copy asap, though I encourage all of you to have your local library, public library and many of you your church library bone up for a copy. Carson Newman's Dave McCneely piece is beautifully written, and The essay "She Ironed our Underwear". Also, Bailey Edwards Nelson, another Furman grand and o=in the origins of the New Baptist Covenant movement, has a great piece about her time in Mt Airy N.C. though I'm sure next to mine it was one of Sandy's least faves.
While I take issue of course, with his takeaway, I appreciate him taking a look at the book.
Some of you will want to visit the facebook discussion of this book
http://www.facebook.com/sbcexiles. I'm going to link this discussion there.
Praise report, there is a copy in the Ft Payne Alabama library now, but not sure if Collinsville Lyberry has a copy yet.
There are some rubes in the Collinsville Congregation for sure, but I did not paint them as Sandy suggests. There are Auburn, Dyuke, UVA, Yale, Baylor, Samfor Penn State, Judson and many others in the church, some of them in the honors program. So the church's extended family was very capable of understanding what was at stake. I think I did a fairly decent job in eight pages of explaining their "Pass" on the matter and how it happened.
P.S.; If Sandy liked my testimony, he's gonna love the one from Oklahoma's Lavonn Brown/s son; worth the book right there for David Flick!