A lot of reporters think I'm a shill for management. I remember how my friend, Joe McKean at WDBJ in Roanoke, got everybody's attention by introducing me shouting, 'All Stand. At one time, I was giving more than 25 sermons a year. I still help out when I can. I've been at virtually every church in Rockbridge County.
Ministers meet all sorts of people.
I went to a little church out in the south end of the county. The old frontier custom was to show up at Easter with babies to baptize. I'd never run into that. But on that Sunday, there was a family there with three children for baptism. There was a lot of snow that winter and this church didn't have running water.