In the church I went to in Georgia, I sat down in the pew and they immediately discovered that we from out of town and the preacher said “Stand up, give us your names and would you like to say something?” and they literally gave me the front of the church to say something. When […]

There weren’t really home-stays for everybody in Georgia but there was a connection with either a town government official or maybe the newspaper in Texas and this guy said, “Come on out we’ll find something for you.” So Rusty, myself and another guy, Joe Goodman, we drove out together. My first home stay was with […]

There were certain things I had theologically not dealt with. The whole Pentecostal thing, the speaking in tongues thing, was a very big issue in the country. The Charismatic Renewal was just beginning and so we went to a lot of churches where this was done and then we went to a lot of churches […]

Iowa was, and I know that Gaudino thought it was too, middle class. But I thought so much of it different than my experience. First of all, this was true throughout. I’m Jewish. I grew up in a Jewish home. Not a particularly observant Jewish home but real Jewish identity. From the time I left […]

The family that I lived with, the Motley family, in Detroit, they were talking about Jews and my being surprised by the stereotypes they had about Jews, clearly not agreeing with them. But it didn’t create conflict for me and I think that had I met a police officer who said, “He’s a nigger,” I […]

I used to go over his house a lot. And that’s where I think Dick Slade was kind of living there in the spring of ’74, another Williams-at-Home guy. I’d hang out with Dick and talk and we’d talk with Bob. He was pushing me all the time. “Well O.K., now you’re back here, what […]

We had two guys that were in Williams-at-Home who were Born Again Christians. They asked if they could pray for him or if they could pray with him. And he actually did that. He agreed to pray with them. He was not a Born Again Christian. I just thought it was really interesting that he […]

As I remember it, this was when Robert Gaudino was very ill and was getting around with an electric scooter. As he became more sick, he became the wise old man. He became hunched over, walked with a cane, halting, and it was almost as if we were experiencing him over a lifetime, as if […]

Jay Haug and I, we both learned a lot about our Christian faith because of Gaudino pushing us. He used his illness as a way of teaching but I think with Jay and me he was using it more as a way of testing our faith. You know, he would ask, “Well are you praying […]

If you ask me what his favorite dish was, what his political affiliation was, what his religious beliefs were, what the personal preferences of his life were, I couldn’t tell you. Because he didn’t seem to want to talk about those things. He was an educator to the max, that was his passion, that was […]

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