One dictionary’s definition of “idol” is “an object of passionate devo
Women's Ministries
Notable Assembly in Notable State
When this year’s PCA general assembly convenes June 15 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, it will make history. Never before has the denomination’s highest court returned to a city (or state) for the third time. No other city has been the site of more than one of the denomination’s fourteen assem
Representing the Family
Like apple pie and basketball, the family is an institution that few dare oppose. Attacks are subtle and oblique, usually. One of the public defenders of this basic unit of society is the “layper
Giving – More Than Money
Dramatic and traumatic experi
Changing Destinations
Senior flight attendants on major airlines go just about anywhere they want to go. Sometimes, however, they end up where they had not planned to be. For instance, when Diana Lawrence put in her bid for a couple of nice European trips for June 1985 it didn’t occur to her that she would not be on board when the jumbo jets took off. Nor did she dream then that she would be working for a seminary, not an air
Trying the Book Case
Losing once is not reason to quit. Ask Thomas 0. Kotouc, a lawyer who represented Mobile school authorities and the state of Alabama in the prayer case that went all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court. The nation’s highest tribunal told the Alabama schools that they couldn’t pray – even silently.
Now, the Montgomery attorney and PCA ruling elder is back in court with another aspect of the same issue. If no religion can be tolerated in state schools, then why should approved textbooks prefer the “religion” of humanism? That’s the question that Kotouc and his partner, Thomas F. Parker IV, have pursued in federal court in Mobile. Associated with them in the case is Mobile lawyer Bob Sherling, a PCA eider. The lead plaintiff is Doug Smith, a Montgomery teacher and one of Kotouc’s fellow members at Eastwood Church there. With permission of the court, it is a class action suit in which the attorneys represent more than 600 parents and teachers listed on the original docu