Humble Beginnings in a Whirlwind 2020

The Center for Moral Apologetics at Houston Baptist University got underway in 2020, a year for the ages-a most trying and tumultuous time whose vagaries and vicissitudes could hardly have been predicted in advance, and which seem almost surreal in retrospect. The inaugural director of the Center kept, almost accidentally, a journal through much of the year, intermittent at first, and later in earnest. Jacqueline Woodson once wrote, "The more specific we are, the more universal...
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The Center for Moral Apologetics at Houston Baptist University got underway in 2020, a year for the ages-a most trying and tumultuous time whose vagaries and vicissitudes could hardly have been predicted in advance, and which seem almost surreal in retrospect. The inaugural director of the Center kept, almost accidentally, a journal through much of the year, intermittent at first, and later in earnest. Jacqueline Woodson once wrote, "The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate."These pages chronicle personal, local, and national events of this remarkable time-the context culminating in the Center at long last transforming from marinating dream to concrete reality. During the pilgrimage the author has occasion to talk about his vision for the Center, steps toward its inception, and his family's transition from Virginia to Texas in the throes of a pandemic. They capture the opening pages of a fresh, exciting chapter: the first fledging steps and humble beginnings of an ambitious new initiative fraught with pitfalls and rife with potential.