by Doug Thompson | Oct 31, 2020 | Musings
Calvary Baptist Church in Roanoke is nearly a century old in its location on Campbell Avenue. It’s for sale as declining membership leaves the historic church struggling to pay its high maintenance costs. Calvary is caught in a staggering drop in membership of...
by Doug Thompson | Aug 24, 2020 | Opinion, Politics
Rev. Samuel L. Adams, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the McNair Chair in Biblical Studies at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, has a lot to say about Donald Trump, his supporters, their ludicrous heresy and sacrilegious embraces of...
by Doug Thompson | Aug 23, 2020 | Opinion, White House
Mural based on “Trump’s End of the World,” by artist Robert Cenedella. Samuel L. Adams, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the McNair Chair in Biblical Studies at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, has a few things to...
by Doug Thompson | Feb 24, 2020 | Doug Thompson, Opinion, White House
In a political world filled with hypocrisies, the greatest oxymoron on them all is the steadfast support of the Christian evangelical community for Donald John Trump. Greg Sargeant of The Plum Line calls this “the oft-debated oddity that millions of evangelical...
by Doug Thompson | Jan 6, 2016 | Musings
It is hard to think about or seriously discuss real issues of the day because of the sideshow that our political and government system has become. The news media, and yes I’m part of that media “establishment,” appears mesmerized by a political...
