Henry A. Buchanan felt the 'call to preach' when he was thirteen years old, but he didn't start preaching right away. He attended Mercer University, a Baptist college in Macon, Georgia and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky; finally graduating as a Doctor of Theology. Later the school conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy but suggested that for the sake of humility, he not use both degrees on his letterhead. He left both off his letterhead.While a student, Buchanan preached in small Baptist churches in Georgia, Kentucky and Indiana, getting experience and sometimes correction but often encouragement. In his first resident pastorate at Shellman,… Georgia things went well for three years, then the racial issue came up and he spoke up for racial integration and was hanged in effigy, buried in a mock grave, and fired. Henry and his wife, Martha Lee, went back to Kentucky and he became a hospital chaplain, a minister to sick people instead of "that nigger lovin' preacher" in a town run by sick people. He began writing articles for national magazines.In retirement at Murray, Kentucky, Buchanan wrote twenty-two books of stories about the unusual and eccentric people in his life. He wrote vigorously against our current wars, and waged a virtual antiwar campaign in his Letters to Editors.Growing old alone, he was found by Anne Ellis, who had stood up for him when the vote was taken in the Shellman church. They married and moved to Texas where, with Anne's help at the computer, he prepared "A Preacher's Tales" for publication.Henry Buchanan is still writing Letters to Editors on every lively issue that raises its head.