I learned early on that my grandfather Dr. Henry M. Morris was a great man. Not just a good man, mind you, but a truly great and remarkable man, specially gifted by God to perform a vital work for the Kingdom.

If you are like me, each day’s mail—both at home and at the office—brings a good number of urgent appeals for donations. These are roughly divided among political, religious, and charitable causes, and no doubt most are legitimate and worthy of support. But their very numbers are wearisome to me, and I’ve quit reading many of them.