Take a look at the Bible on your kitchen table. According to some people, that book is sexist, chauvinistic, and in need of drastic change. The issue involved is called “de-sexing” the Bible, and we are certain to hear a great deal more about this highly-controversial movement in the coming months and years. This monster […]

Last winter, a group of 50 leading Protestant and Roman Catholic scholars met at an interdenominational meeting on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. Their major conclusions were reported in a one-column article in the Grand Rapids Press. Now, I would expect that few of us ever pay much attention to the reports […]

“Teachers in the Protestant Reformed schools walked off their jobs yesterday, demanding higher salaries and more benefits. A spokesman for the teachers commented, ‘We have families and children to support. They have to eat, too, you know.’ Another angry educator shouted, ‘We won’t go back to work until they give us the raises we deserve!’” […]

The article in the San Francisco Examiner wasn’t very big, nor did it command very much attention. It simply noted that Congressman Leo J. Ryan and several other people from California had left for Guyana, South America, in order to investigate the People’s Temple, a cult which had several members living in a settlement called […]