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The movie We Are Marshall brought national attention to the tragic loss and dramatic reconstitution of the school’s football team. But neither this film nor the Emmy-winning documentary, Marshall University: Ashes to Glory, explores the spiritual context and effect of the plane crash.

Few know that a visiting campus preacher touched the life of a popular defensive lineman the week before his ill-fated flight; that a campus minister was surprised several weeks later by a nighttime visit from students who’d come to ask “the Jesus man” how to be saved; that two years before the crash, a new, young professor, with a doctorate from India, enlisted five students to help evangelize the campus; and that three decades later, a devout linebacker urged the coach to change the name of a play since it was demeaning to women.

The story extends back to the school’s log-church beginnings, up through the decades when campus Ys generated foreign missionaries, to the national championship years, when key players testified freely to their faith—nearly two centuries of spiritual highs (and yes, lows) in the life of this remarkable school.

Mark Coppenger is Retired Professor of Christian Philosophy and Ethics at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of Moral Apologetics for Contemporary Christians (2011) and Cases and Maps: A Christian Introduction to Philosophy (2019). He also edited A Skeptic's Guide to Arts in the Church: Ruminations on Twenty Reservations (2018). William E. Elkins Jr. is pastor of Chickasha (OK) Reformed Church. He has served in the Middle East as a chaplain for the Oklahoma National Guard. Richard H. Stark III teaches at Palmetto Christian Academy in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. He has also taught adjunct courses for his alma mater, North Greenville University, as well as Anderson University (SC).