The crowd started gathering around Wrigley Field midafternoon on Sunday, approximately four hours before the Cubs were scheduled to face off against the Dodgers in game two of the National League Championship Series. And on the corner of Addison and Sheffield, amid the stream of fans, vendors, drinkers, gawkers, and wanderers all clad in blue, stood one lone stout, white-haired figure in red with a hands-free microphone over his ear and Bible in his back pocket.
“I’m Jewish,” I said.
It did not.
“I guess it’s neat,” he said.
Behind him a white van pulled up. It had been circling Wrigley Field for the past hour or so. A sign on top read god bless america with the B crossed out. the obama admin & 2016 election divine judgement on america. Other signs urged “lukewarm churchgoers” to reconcile themselves to God and recommended that people concerned that the rise of terrorism signaled end times consult John 16:2-4 and women seeking abortions the website 180movie.com (“Eight minds changed on abortion in seconds,” goes the film’s tagline). A sign on the back advised, “Impatience causes collision.” A loudspeaker from the top blared grim statistics about the rise of cohabitation and divorce. “Christ died for you! It’s time to make a decision!”
