Hear No Evil: My Story of Innocence, Music, and the Holy Ghost by Matthew Paul Turner
Author:Matthew Paul Turner [Turner, Matthew Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Autobiography, Biography, Christian, Composers & Musicians, Contemporary, Music, Non-Fiction, Religious
ISBN: 9780307458537
Google: Le8drXr8nQcC
Amazon: 140007472X
Publisher: WaterBrook
Published: 2010-02-16T00:00:00+00:00
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For a long time I separated the Christians who attended Belmont University into two different groups: those who enjoyed gathering in small circles for Bible reading and prayer, and those whose idea of “Jesus time” was ducking behind a Dumpster so they could smoke “socially” alone.
Then there was my friend Josiah, the only person I knew who managed to mingle in both groups. Sometimes when he could convince his circle of friends to hold hands adjacent to one of Belmont’s six Dumpsters, he participated in both groups at the same time. Whenever one of his Christian friends questioned his nicotine habit, Josiah always said the same thing.
“I used to be Amish, all right? Amish! Do you know what it was like being raised Amish? The only difference between being Amish and being dead is that my coffin was pulled by a horse and dropped me off at Wal-Mart on Saturday morning.”
Josiah was the only passive-aggressive former Amish person I’d ever met. In college he tried really hard to get back at his parents for making him Amish. He did this by taking up smoking and becoming a Calvinist.
Josiah and I met on my first day at Belmont. My parents, my sister Elisabeth, and I had just arrived in Nashville, and the four of us had just finished circling a building, trying to determine if it contained my dorm room.
“Dad, this can’t be it,” I said.
My father pulled the car over and snatched the college map out of my fingers. “I’m pretty sure this is right, Buck.”
“You must have made a wrong turn somewhere, Dad.”
“Buck, I’m tellin’ ya, we’re right in front of your dorm. It’s that middle one, right there.”
Dad pointed at a three-story brick building on top of a small hill. Pembroke Hall looked nothing like it did in the pictures. The brochure said it possessed a “historic grandeur,” so I knew it wouldn’t be a new building. What the brochure didn’t say was that Pembroke appeared old enough to have been built by Confederates.
The pictures made Pembroke seem warm and inviting. One featured a group of seven guys sitting on the back steps, laughing, eating pizza, and enjoying the guitar skills of the one Asian guy in the picture. Those steps looked like the perfect location for lounging, studying, or gathering with a racially diverse group of friends for a game of Uno or Bible trivia.
In person, the windows were cracked, with paint chipping off the sills; some bricks looked loose, and four of the ten air-conditioning units hanging out of the first-floor windows were supported by two-by-fours and plywood. It didn’t look warm and inviting. It looked like the front yard on the set of Sanford and Son.
I sighed.
“Doesn’t look the same as it does in the pictures, huh?” I said this only because I knew Dad, Mom, and Elisabeth were already thinking it. Nobody said anything. I looked at Elisabeth, hoping she’d offer something positive.
Her eyes searched the building, and she leaned over the front seat to look at the picture in the brochure.
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