When Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis in 1968 I was living and teaching there. I taught at what is now Rhodes College and also at Lemoyne-Owen College. The latter was a traditional Black College. Dr. King had come to Memphis to support the local Sanitation Workers strike. They were trying to get a union…

There are many Bibles available, which should we be reading? There are numerous “popular” versions with which most evangelicals are familiar, like the Goodnews Bible and many others, which are not really translations from the original Hebrew and Greek, but are simply English paraphrases of more familiar versions. Here I shall offer a brief account…