A Better Name

A Better Name

The old gray-haired Bapto-Appalachian-American preacher is pondering Isaiah 56:5, “I  will give, in my house and within my walls, a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off” (NRSV). ...
More Than One Kind Of Parent

More Than One Kind Of Parent

“A woman who hasn’t birthed her own children has no business being President of the United States. How can she possibly care about the future of this country if she has no biological stake in it? Maybe we’ll give her credit if she adopted children. But stepparenting...