It is arguably among America’s most beautiful universities, nestled as
it is in the mountains of Southwestern Virginia. Its official name is
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, …
The story of Jesus’ birth has now been celebrated in pageants, Christmas
cards and in hymns for almost two thousand years. The characters in this
drama like Mary, …
I return this week for a second look at the first of the “Five Fundamentals,” that series of principles which in the early 1900’s gave birth …
“God wrote it! I believe it! That does it!” Those words adorned the
bumper of a car I saw in the deep South. “This is the word of …
I remember well an experience I had as a young lad in the
late 1930’s in the South’s Bible Belt when I first heard about evolution. A
neighbor …
One of the things we need to embrace in order to understand the
conflicts being waged in most of the main line churches today is that
throughout most …
Is the escalating conflict, which is public in mainline Protestant
Christianity and private in Roman Catholic Christianity, really about
homosexuality? I do not think so. Homosexuality is only …
A new book possesses for its author and sometimes even for
its potential readers a mysterious quality. Writing a book represents such
a large investment of time and …
It does not matter how many times it has happened before, for me it is
still a transcendent moment. The doorbell rings, a courier bearing a
package so …
The Episcopal Church has been in the news recently.
One diocese on the west coast, led by its bishop, has amended its canons to
remove every reference to …