With all of my overseas visits in 2023, it wouldn’t have been a complete travel year without a road trip.

The first stop, as I headed east, was the Marion Wade Center in Wheaton.
With all of my overseas visits in 2023, it wouldn’t have been a complete travel year without a road trip.

The first stop, as I headed east, was the Marion Wade Center in Wheaton.
As I started to head back toward Wisconsin on my Eastern Excursion (part one is here), I had one final appointment on my schedule: an interview with Robert Finley, InterVarsity’s first evangelist. Finley was hired right out of college, the University of Virginia, where he had started what was the largest student initiated Christian group of any U.S. college in the early 1940s. He worked for InterVarsity during the week and Youth for Christ on the weekends. (more…)