the history teacher who taught Sunday school

the history teacher who taught Sunday school

fiction
edward w pritchard

Pastor Zimmerman always glanced down the east wing hall before he went to begin the church service and today there was a small crowd of adults standing by the door of the seventh grade Sunday school class. Mr. Rhodes must be talking about something interesting today.

Pastor Zimmerman gently pushed to the opening of the classroom and looked at all the maps on the chalkboards. Ancient Ur, Basra and then modern Baghdad; the map was no more than a big circle, modern Iraq was not drawn to scale nor were the geographical features consistent. The boys however were hanging on their teachers every word.

Abraham was a Chaldean, before he went to the land of the bible. Christians had been reading about ancient Ur in the bible for two thousand years before it's remnants were rediscovered in the twentieth century.

Walking back to deliver his sermon Pastor Zimmerman heard Ronnie Risk ask about where the Muslims came from originally.
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