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Saturday, July 18, 2026 at 7:57 PM

Always stand firm on all of your convictions

My friend and our church pianist, Robert “Bob” Parrish, died recently and before I saw the obituary, I simply typed Robert Parrish into the search engine on my iPad to see what I might find.

The first response was a series of articles on “Sitting Bull,” a 1954 American-Mexican movie about the events leading up to the “Battle of the Little Bighorn” and “Custer’s Last Stand.”

Thinking my iPad had gone haywire, I read the article, and it turns out that a fictional Maj. Robert Parrish, played by Dale Robertson, was the youngest colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War, but he wasn’t a team player.

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