Bat, Scalpel, Sheepskin, Beneath the Cross - Narratives on the Life of Gail Eason Hopkins

Dr. Hopkins played major league baseball, became an orthopedic surgeon, and obtained graduate degrees in the sciences and Biblical Studies. He perceived his central commitment to be to Jesus Christ. He has served as an elder in Churches of Christ and on the board of Christian Colleges. Dr. Hopkins' life is told by admiring relatives and friends.

About the author

Thomas H. Olbricht was born in Thayer, Missouri.  He was educated at Harding, Northern Illinois, Iowa and Harvard Divinity School.  He taught at Iowa, Harding, Dubuque, Penn State and Pepperdine universities.  He has published or helped edit twenty-five books of autobiography, Biblical studies, church history and rhetoric.  Olbricht and Gail Hopkins hold membership in many of the same theological associations.  Tom and Dorothy live in a retirement community in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Leah Hopkins is the older of Gail and Caroline Hopkins' two children. Her first home was at Pepperdine College where her father was the baseball coach. She grew up in laboratories and baseball fields but eventually returned to Pepperdine University to study Biochemistry then Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine for her MD and Internal Medicine residency.  She practiced in Chicago before moving to Parkersburg, WV in 2003. She currently practices Internal Medicine in Belpre, OH.

Product details

• Authors: Leah G. Hopkins, Thomas Nelson, Thomas H. Olbricht
• Publisher: Harper Collins (US)
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.07.2018
• EAN: 9781595557261
• ISBN: 978-1-59555-726-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 362 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; RELIGION / History, CHRISTIAN, RELIGION / Biblical Biography / New Testament