“Okay—”
She pulled the letter from beneath the table and slid it across to me. I didn’t look at how it was addressed or at the return address. I simply pulled it from the envelope. The letter was written on school notebook paper and two one-dollar bills were paper clipped to the letter. It was carefully written with pencil in the old-fashioned Palmer method. I set the dollars on the table and began to read.
June 5, 1963
June 5, 1963Dear Christ Beacon Ministries,
Dear Christ Beacon Ministries,As always, I implore you not to show my letters to Pastor Dennison. I do not want him to know that I am sending money. I watch him every week on television, but we can’t afford one of our own. I go to a neighbor’s house to watch The Church Down the Road, and once in a while I am lucky enough to cat
