Willie May’s baseball glove A short “ thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation (Click on this link to hear a recorded version of the following piece) —o0o— In 1974, the liberal, process-theologian, Bernard Loomer (1912–1985) told a story about his father. One day, after overhearing the young Loomer complain in the playground about the thinness of a baseball glove he’d inherited from his older brothers, his father asked him what the glove was for, a question to which the young Loomer replied, “To protect his hand.” Loomer’s father continued that, although he’d never played baseball himself, it seemed to him that one should be able to c...