We saw Brother Jed Smock preaching on the Alumni Plaza from afar, and ran up to him as he was about to leave.

Wildcat: OK, you’re on the spot. So tell me about your wife. Is she a believer?

Smock: My wife is. She converted through my ministry in Florida. She used to come out and heckle me.

W: Why would she heckle you?

S: For entertainment’s sake. Just as students do here.

W: Would she ride around you with a bicycle and smoke a hookah pipe in front of you?

S: No. People would do that and they would try to discourage me and test me.

W: How did you get her on your side?

S: Well, I rebuked her sharply. I said, “”Repent of your sins, you wicked woman.”” And she got to thinking, in the light of the way she had been brought up, she was wicked.

W: Why?

S: She was living immorally.

W: How?

S: We need not describe it.

W: Did she smoke cigars?

S: She was violating God’s law.

W: Can you tell me some of the things that are sin?

S: Selfishness, self indulgence, drunkenness, fornication, any sort of sexual immorality.

W: Was there a point in your life when you’ve realized you were sinning, and you had to turn away?

S: I was a college professor. I promoted atheism, socialism…

W: Is socialism sinful?

S: Yes it is. It robs from the more productive members of society, to redistribute the wealth amongst the less productive. It’s a group sin.

W: If you could rate it on a sin scale of one to 10 …

S: Any sin is serious. Any sin will separate us from God.

W: Are sorority girls more sinful than scholars?

S: If you look at these Greek organizations, study their charters, most of them at least are based on Christian principles. But I think generally speaking, they don’t take these Christian principles seriously. What they take seriously is the party life.

W: How many drinks does it take to sin?

S: That would vary according to the individual. Women are less likely to be able to handle one than men, generally.

W: What about a Cosmopolitan, because they have less alcohol in them?

S: Less alcohol, the better.

W: What about a Bloody Mary?

S: Sister Pat, we’d better go.

W: Well, can … OK thank you.

– Andi Berlin