by Drew Smith | Sep 2, 2009 | Opinion
Perhaps the most beloved story in the Gospels, and indeed maybe the favorite story for many from the entire Bible, is the story of Jesus’ birth. Even when it is not the time for Christmas, the familiar Nativity story lives on in our hearts and minds, narrating...
by Drew Smith | Aug 26, 2009 | Opinion
In recent days I have received and heard comments from folks who are against health care reform because, as they say, “Jesus would not worry about health care reform because Jesus was not concerned with politics.” Most of these people stress that Jesus was...
by Drew Smith | Aug 12, 2009 | Opinion
Growing up in a fundamentalist Baptist church, I was continually exposed to the well-known practice of preachers, and especially those evangelists, who would annually slip into the town for revival services. Those revival meetings would offer a time in which we...
by Drew Smith | Aug 3, 2009 | Opinion
I live in that region of the United States dubbed the Bible Belt. In my county, there are more than 100 churches of various denominations and various sizes. All of them are part of the wider Christian tradition, which is unfortunate for it makes us somewhat...
by Drew Smith | Jul 23, 2009 | Opinion
How did a movement that began with a rugged band of first-century Jewish peasants eventually become the largest institutional religion in the world? How did the followers of Jesus move from meeting in homes to building extravagant cathedrals, worship centers and...
