EXPERIENCED THE DREADED PERFUNCTORY of the church pew as a child, acolyte, and later, more formally as a wandering pilgrim seeking the truth and the promise of the gospel with a sincere questioning of those men of profession and through books both great and small. My heart was repeatedly clipped and scarred when I heard […]
hose dreading urbanization should remember that though the Kingdom of God first appeared in a temporal Garden, at the end of the book it is established in an eternal City.—James M. Boice Augustine wrote the treatise to explain Christianity’s relationship with competing religions and philosophies, and to the Roman government with which it was increasingly […]
A FORMERLY ANONYMOUS blogger who criticized his prominent Southern Baptist pastor has sued police and state prosecutors for revealing his identify to the church even though an investigation showed he had done nothing illegal. Tom Rich and his wife Yvette, until recently members of First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., for about 20 years, filed […]