Moses, the Ten Commandments, and Me: An Unauthorized Biography

Hal H. Eaton has been a Baptist preacher for more than 65 years. He grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and started preaching at 19. After college in Missouri, he attended Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Kansas. He spent 20 years as a Navy chaplain, crossing the Pacific 40 times. In 1971, he became the religion teacher and chaplain at Oak Hill Academy, a Baptist boarding high school in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, a tiny town in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He pastored Young's Chapel Baptist Church adjacent to the school's campus for 21 years. He has had the opportunity (and he continues) to talk theology with people of nearly every background and belief system. He and his wife of 67 years, Marjorie Bean Eaton, continue to live in the home they built in Mouth of Wilson, maintaining close ties to Oak Hill and Young's Chapel.