My wife, Donna, and I were planning to spend a year in India in 1982. Due to unforeseen circumstances, we returned home in April of that year. In July of 1982 we moved from Oklahoma City to El Dorado, Arkansas, where I preached in area churches at East Faulkner in El Dorado, at Antioch in Louisiana, and occasionally at Urbana, Arkansas.

When I arrived in El Dorado, my father, the late Ralph D. Gage, along with Jim Bullock had begun publishing Basic Christianity. I began to help in writing articles and eventually assumed the role of editor.

In this issue we are happy to welcome Jim Bullock back as a contributing writer. Jim has worked in education over the years and has worked for colleges in Texas, West Virginia, and Arkansas. He grew up in El Dorado and his father, the late Joe Bullock, was an elder at the East Faulkner congregation. For a number of years Jim worked with the North 5th Church of Christ in West Monroe, Louisiana.

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