Have Faith: Everything changes. Some things never change.

I grew up in the nostalgic days, the "Happy Days" of the 1950's. Our fathers, without a doubt the "Greatest Generation," returned from a world torn by war to build a new world out of their hopes and dreams. They began by giving birth to the largest generation in history, the Baby Boomers. Born in 1947, I was one of the first. 

It was a time of great vitality and optimism, a time of peace after the trauma of two world wars. And it was a time when a new Methodist church was being built on the outskirts of Birmingham, somewhere way out there on Maple Road. The cornerstone reads 1951.

I can remember when we got our first television—black and white, of course. And I remember when they announced the development of color TV. I remember …