The Hand of God by Miller Tim

Author:Miller, Tim [Miller, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vamptasy
Published: 2012-06-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

My years in South Texas Bible College were mostly uneventful. I’d known I was special since I was a kid. The pace at which I learned in school only confirmed it. Many of my professors were impressed with my biblical knowledge and my skills at exegesis. I didn’t date or have much of a social life. My focus was on my studies and pleasing God.

The college name was a bit of a joke to the local folks. Many called it South Texas Bridal College since most parents sent their daughters there to find good Christian husbands. While it had a lot of strict rules in force, the scene on weekends wasn’t a whole lot different than you’d see at a secular college. Though students didn’t party at the dorms, they’d go into town and get a hotel room and drink until they puked or passed out, or both.

Sex was just as rampant on campus as it was at any other college. The administration would have parents believe otherwise and, of course, premarital sex was strictly against the rules. Even having a girl in your dorm was cause for expulsion. The rules didn’t keep it from happening, or stop kids from hooking up at hotels in town or wherever they could sneak away to. Unfortunately since sex was strictly forbidden, so was any form of birth control. So when girls did have sex, they would often end up pregnant. This got them a quick bus ticket back home.

This brought out the injustice of the whole thing. The girl usually would not say who the dad was. So she would get sent home, but the guy was free to finish his education, since there was no way to determine who the father was. Most girls figured they were already expelled, so there was no reason to rat anyone else out.

I took interest when it happened to one girl in particular, Irene Torres. She was a pretty Latina girl. She had olive skin, deep brown eyes and long, dark hair. Her major was elementary education. Unlike most girls, she hadn’t found a husband by our senior year. She had gone on some dates, but nothing serious. For a few guys, she had become somewhat of a challenge. Some men who took the Bible a little too literally, felt she was a rebellious woman who needed a man to tame her. I never thought she was rebellious. She was her own person, that was for sure. We worked in some study groups together in a few classes. I liked her because she was one of the few people in college who didn’t act like I gave her the creeps. Everything for Irene changed a few months before graduation. Irene went to campus security to report she had been raped. She said it was her roommate’s boyfriend, Todd Sheffield. Todd was the son of Hank Sheffield, a big-time pastor in Los Angeles. Hank had a church with thirty-thousand members, plus his own syndicated TV show.

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