Atheists, Evangelists, and Prophets take over Balboa Park
Walk in the park of shame.
Billy Stewart wants to know if I am ready to accept Jesus Christ into my heart.
He stands under a cluster of
palm trees along the Prado in Balboa Park. A navy-blue ball cap with a
quote — “Jesus, one way, the only way, John 14:16” — conceals most of
Stewart’s gray hair. His T-shirt is tucked into a pair of pleated
slacks. It, too, is Christ-themed. It depicts Jesus dying on the cross;
its caption asserts: “Jesus died for a reason.”
Every Saturday morning in
Balboa Park, Stewart sets up a neatly arranged table with a multitude of
biblical tracts. This particular Saturday, Stewart is accompanied by a
toothless gentleman. I overhear him disclose to a tourist that he was
blind, deaf, and dumb before Jesus healed him.
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