Ben flew to Boston last weekend with seven other math students from various high schools in the Chicago area to participate in the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament. My mother helped out as a proctor and was delighted to be involved. Ben did very well on one of his two individual tests: he placed 2nd out of …
I’ve just finished reading In The Land of Believers: An Outsider’s Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church by Gina Welch. Gina, a secular Jew, goes undercover in Thomas Road Baptist Church (Jerry Falwell’s church) in order to learn what Evangelicals are really like. Gina went undercover because she felt she wouldn’t get …
This is a copy of my latest post on the Communitas Collective blog I’ve been helping with churchrater.com, a website where anyone and everyone can post their rating of any church in the US. This week ChurchRater was featured on Seattle’s King5 news and written about in the Seattle Times. This publicity has brought more …