Not Much Has Changed Since 9/11

When a university in North Carolina asked its incoming students to read about Islam, many religious and political leaders in the state went berserk. “Why read the Koran?” they asked. “Why not read the Bible?” See what I mean? Not much has...

Gospel Roundup at the Cowboy Church

We have, in a real sense, always been a divided church, segregated by race, class and ideology. The current trends further balkanize the Christian movement. They teach us, indirectly and unintentionally, to insist on our own way in dress, music, doctrine. So goes the...

End Time Tabernacle

Off the Mountain Parkway at Slade and up State Road 77 sits a white frame church. The sign facing the traffic names the structure as the “End Time Tabernacle,” which leaves the traveler wondering about doctrine, practice and affiliation but not at all...

Entertaining Strangers, Encountering Angels

My three children, young single adults, are scattered this week—Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, a situation that prompts an oft-uttered prayer, “Lord, send into their lives people who will inspire them and make good things to happen.” As I pray...

Three Cheers for the Blue-Collar Crowd

Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Wednesday evening: nine miners trapped. Sunday morning: nine miners saved. “Praise the Lord,” the governor said; throughout America, all the people said, “Amen.” It was a marvel, we all agree, if not an outright...