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Its campaign in the early 1990s-TV spots with the tag line “Life. His legacy is the DeMoss Foundation, which funds many conservative causes.

DeMoss, who died in 1979, made a fortune selling insurance to people with very few health risks-conservative Christians. This by way of preface to my difficulty in finding the right way to talk about a small book by Mark DeMoss called The Little Red Book of Wisdom, which I received in the mail several months ago.

Unless you lived on a farm and rode a schoolbus, you walked to school, so that the children from even the next school district might as well have lived in another state. For us kids the world consisted of home and school and all schools then, whether public or parochial, were local. Where would we have roamed? There were no amusement arcades, no malls or cineplexes. Our neighborhood and the reigning class segregation meant that middle-class kids in the heartland knew very little about the world beyond the neighborhoods from which we seldom roamed. Segregation, based on the felt inferiority of a class of human beings, has come to be offensive to right-thinking people, but, traditionally, living among people like yourself has been the natural order of things. Such was the status and class separation of the 1950s, an outcome of the hermeticism of middle-class life of that era. As a matter of fact, until I went to college, there were no blacks and not a single person I would have been able to identify as Jewish among my acquaintances. As a Catholic growing up in the years before Vatican II, I knew very few Protestants, much less evangelicals, even though I lived in Kentucky and southern Indiana, heartland of Protestantism, and not the Episcopalian variety.