When the news reached my nurse that my dad, Jonathan, and my granddad, King Saul, had died in battle, she fled. As she hurried to leave, I fell and became lame in both legs. I was only five years old at that time. I lived with Makir, son of Ammiel, until David asked for me. […]

One of the most significant religious developments in the U.S. may be that appearing in the continuing ten-year swing of its largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, toward control by conservatives. The November 4 Christianity Today devoted some 13 pages to “America’s Southern Baptists,” looking at “Who They Are,” “What They Believe” and “Where […]