Saint Stephen’s Anglican Church

‘It ain’t necessarily so. It ain’t necessarily so. Things that you’re liable to read in the Bible, they ain’t necessarily so.’ So goes one of the most popular hits from the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess.

These words, however, didn’t necessarily spring forth unprompted from the depths of a cynical secular mind. ‘It ain’t necessarily . . . → Read More: Biblical theories that ‘ain’t necessarily so’

The Fourth of July has a special significance for me and, I suspect, most people who, like me, were born elsewhere. It marks the 240th anniversary of the declaration that every living person has the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”— thus giving birth to the most exceptional nation on earth.

When . . . → Read More: Hooray for the Fourth of July; down with political correctness