It is with a heavy heart that I welcome you back to this episode of five minutes in church history

We acknowledge the passing of Dr. R.C. Sproll

Dr. Sproll of course was no stranger to five minutes in church history. We even had him on here talking about

his books for his time on a deserted island and he will be missed. On this episode

we're going to spend a little bit of time talking about his life.

And he was a figure in church history,

and we'll have a legacy in church history.

I remember reading that he was an American-born theologian. Well, I'd like to modify that a little bit

and say he was a son of Pittsburgh.

Yes, he was an American, but he was born in Pittsburgh.

On February 13, 1939, his dad also RC Sprawl was the proprietor of

RC Sproll and Sons accounting. Its offices were right downtown Pittsburgh. On Christmas Eve of

1942, Dr. Sproll, just a young kid at the time, his father landed in

Casablanca and Morocco to serve in World War II.

When you talked to RC about his early childhood, he will tell you, it was about the war.

It was a time, these early years of the 1940s

that were dominated by World War II. In fact he remembers typing his very

first letters. They were X's and O's. He was sitting on his

mother's lap as she was typing letters to her husband and he would hop on her

lap and at the bottom of that letter type his lines of X's and

those hugs and kisses for his dad.

He would spend much time behind a typewriter for the rest of his life. He wouldn't have known it if you popped in

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