Atop the tiny
,
white-columned 1842 church where Glen Likens was baptized, where he married his wife, where their children were baptized, where they still worship on Sundays, the steeple is rotting.
Working in a cluster
of offices above a LifeWay Christian Bookstore, Bible scholars are buried in a 20-year project to codify the thousands of changes, verse by verse, word by word—even letter by letter—that crept into the early New Testament during hundreds of years of laborious hand-copying.
There was a time
when those who prophesied the death of religion portrayed what would follow that demise as a blissful era of tolerance, freedom, and respect for the dignity of all.
Pastor Suzette Caldwell
has been voted the 2010 Author of the Year for her award-winning book, Praying to Change Your Life, a guide to productive prayer.