The Feast of Saturn

One thing I like about being Christian is that I find a greatly expanded scope to who is with me. I have more brothers and neighbors than I once did. Allies turn up in unexpected places, such as in jail in Birmingham.

There was a time when the church was very powerful--in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a...