Church, change, and challenge

Christian leaders shouldn’t think only about how Christianity is changing the world, but about how the world is changing Christianity. That’s according to Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, recently retired as general secretary of the Reformed Church in...

Rememberdays

Today is my daughter Bethany’s birthday. She would have been 26. It’s hard to imagine, but I do. Yesterday was the 200th birthday of Raleigh’s First Baptist Church — both of them. As in a number of other southern towns, Raleigh’s first...

“Jefferson’s Bible” — and yours

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is currently featuring a display of a project Thomas Jefferson undertook during the latter years of his life: it’s called “Jefferson’s Bible.” Being in Falls Church, Va. for a Baptist...

Advertisers, away!

ProFlowers has withdrawn its ads from Rush Limbaugh’s political radio show, according to news reports, making it the seventh company to abandon the ultra-conservative talk show host. Limbaugh’s intemperate screeds and fuzzy logic have peppered the airwaves...