Old hymns

I’m writing this before heading out to church today. I don’t know what the music will be like, though I’m sure it will be well done, and I’m not worried about it. I can enjoy both traditional and more contemporary music, pieces that are...

Losing the giants

A Baptist giant died this week and the shame of it is, most Baptists didn’t know him. Walter Harrelson was born in Winnabow, N.C., between Wilmington and Southport, in 1919. He studied at Mars Hill College when it was a junior college, served in the Navy from...

B is for brave

I hate the very idea of war. Violence, guns, bombs — situations in which people equally devoted to their cause (or drafted into fighting) shoot or bomb and kill or wound each other — nothing about that is appealing. So why do I remain enamored with...

Too much to ask?

In an election year that has serious ramifications for the future of our country, is it too much to ask for candidates to tell the truth, or a reasonable facsimile thereof? The just-ended Republican National Convention may have set a record for spawning the most...

The Greatest Struggles Christian Women Face

Readers who aren’t on George Barna’s e-mail list might be interested to know of a recent series of surveys his organization has done on the views and feelings of Christian women. For the purposes of the telephone survey, which included 603 randomly chosen...