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...Thinking Outside the Box In his report on the Jesus tomb controversy [March 12], David Van Biema wrote that James Tabor's book The Jesus Dynasty "enmeshes a plausible story of early church strife in speculative material suggesting that Jesus had a human father." What is speculative about Jesus' having a human father? I find it much more speculative to suggest that a divine being impregnated a virgin girl. Perhaps the time will finally arrive when Christians accept the Bible for what it is: a series of allegories that aren't meant to be taken literally. Fred Green, Miami...
...which she meant an official attendance roll. Because the day was Thursday, not Sunday. And the location was not Oakwood Baptist Church, a mile down Texas State Highway 46, but New Braunfels High School, a public school that began offering a Bible-literacy class last fall. The class has its share of conservative Christians. Front-row center sat Rachel Williams, 18, whose mother does teach Sunday school at Oakwood. But not 20 ft. away sat a blond atheist who asked that her name not be used because she hasn't outed herself to her parents. Why take a Bible class...
...first state in memory to offer funds for high school electives on the Old and New Testaments using the Bible as the core text. Similar funding was discussed in several other legislatures, although the initiatives did not become law. Meanwhile, two privately produced curriculums crafted specifically to pass church-state muster are competing for use in individual schools nationwide. Combined, they are employed in 460 districts in at least 37 states. The numbers are modest, but their publishers expect them to soar. The smaller of the two went into operation just last year but is already into its second...
...First Baptist North Spartanburg church in South Carolina is a theologically conservative success story, a suburban megachurch where 3,000 people have been known to show up for Sunday school. If social issues drive votes anywhere in America, it's around here. Yet Giuliani recently filled the fire station across the highway from First Baptist for a rally at which he was endorsed by the chairman of the county council and the executive director of the state firefighters association, who said, "Rudy Giuliani is the face of the response to 9/11...
...first people I met at the rally turned out to be a member of First Baptist church. His name was Paul Walters; he is a dentist, a Republican committeeman and a Giuliani fan. When I asked what his pastor might think of that, he just shook his head as if I was missing the point...