Editor travels to West Texas to report on debate over sexual stewardship policy.
By Bobby Ross Jr. | The Christian Chronicle
ABILENE, Texas — I don’t bleed purple, but I do have fond memories of Abilene Christian University.
As best I can remember, I first visited the West Texas campus nearly 40 years ago.
The year was 1984.
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I was 16 years old.
That summer, after my sophomore year of high school, I flipped burgers at McDonald’s and attended a journalism camp at ACU. The staff of The Wigwam, the student newspaper at Keller High School, made the 165-mile trip from the Fort Worth area to Abilene. We stayed in an ACU dorm.
One night, we ordered pizza from Domino’s. That’s noteworthy only because I lived in a rural area, and I’m not sure I’d ever experienced pizza delivery before.
My friends and I enjoyed the journalism camp so much that we returned again the next summer. By my senior year of high school, I was pretty sure I’d major in journalism at ACU and work on its award-winning student paper, The Optimist.
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