WERE THEY REALLY CALLED? It is not an uncommon experience to be jolted by the startling title of some book or magazine article. That was my experience while glancing over the table of contents of the July 1962 issue of The Pulpit. My eye caught the words,“The Decline and Fall of the Parish Ministry”—the subject […]

During 1993, Public Television (Channel 11 in Chicago) showed a special program dealing with the present status of Evangelicalism in the USA. The project was sponsored by the Pew Charitable Foundation and based on Randall Balmer’s book with the same title. The work was first published by the Oxford University Press in 1989. An expanded […]