Chapter 3: Chosen Brothers

Standing in that open circle, I have everything I will spend the rest of my life trying to get back.

Previously in this series: Introduction: “He saw my future — I went back to my footnotes”; Preface: “Not Ready to Sync It Up”; Chapter 1: “The Volleyball Court”; Chapter 3: The Silence

AUTHOR’S NOTE: This is Chapter 3 of What the Body Knew, a memoir built around the senior history thesis I completed in August 1988, just before leaving for London on a Rotary scholarship. The thesis examined the 1973-74 revival at Hartville Christian School in Hartville, Ohio. Thirty-eight years later, I am finally revising and publishing it — this time not as a historian, but as a memoirist who understands what the historian missed. The completed book from Ascendant Press is scheduled for publication on September 20, 2026.

Previously in this series: Introduction: “He Saw My Future — I Went Back to My Footnotes” Preface: “Not Ready to Sync It Up” Chapter 1: “The Volleyball Court” Chapter 2: “The Silence”

IT IS EARLY December 1987, and the office of The Aviso is mine.

Everyone else has gone home. The hallway…