Ryan J. Jack McDermott has taught American and British literature at a private university in central China's Henan province. He is studying at Duke Divinity School.
When my wife, Darrah, and I met Andy in the Los Angeles airport, we thought we would never have a real conversation with him. This tall, muscular guy nonchalantly palmed a Bible as if he were pacing across the stage of a megachurch. But we soon realized that we would talk with him again, and soon.
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