Matt Bassford: Dying with Purpose

Finding faith, hope and love in a preacher’s last days

Say what you want about the dangers of the Internet. All I know is that without it, I never would have met Matt Bassford, and my life would have been the worse for it.

I only knew Matt in the online sense. Ironically, we connected on Facebook in the heat of the 2016 election, a time when I lost several friends because of my opposition to a certain presid…