The youth leader who worked for change

The Dictionary.com definition for “centrifuge” offers this: “An apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.”

It was a strange name in the late 1970s for a Southern Baptist Convention youth leadership project. But there was logic to it, according to the man behind the idea – my brother Don Mattingly.

Centrifuge camps “w…