I REMEMBER it well.
In the summer of 1985, I was in New York with George MacLeod – 91 years old, nearly deaf and lame – (that’s George, by the way, not me) – on a visit to raise funds to build a new youth and family Centre on the island of Iona. The old trouper was also in the Big Apple to receive the prestigious Union Medal from Union Theological Seminary where George had been the first ever visiting Fosdick Professor 65 years previously. Nearly 1500 pastors from all across America crowded into Riverside Church for the occasion.