By Eddie Pipkin

We were on a road trip this past weekend, and I was treated yet again to an interstate phenomenon that seems to me to have become more of a trend in the past couple of years: the unexpected awkward-side overtaker.  Imagine yourself on a three lane stretch of high-speed asphalt, and you’re the driver in the left lane (the fast lane / the passing lane), when suddenly, out of nowhere, a car comes zooming past you on the right.  This disturbing effect is magnified with even greater intensity if you happen to be in the middle lane and not only are cars overtaking you on the left (as intended) but also, occasionally, out of the blue and at high speed on the right.  I call these aggressive right-side passers “slingshot drivers.”  They can be terrifying.  And yet as supposedly responsible pilots of fthe ministry messaging machine, we pull that same disorienting maneuver on our ministry pa