…tapes of his sermons and his television programme, Moment of Truth, and dissect them in Bible study as though they were philosophical treatises. He, in a manner of speaking, gave a generation of us permission to believe that devotion and intellect were not warring tenants of a divided house but a positive-sum game- tha…

…answer delighted her neighbour’s mother-in-law, who announced that she would join their Bible study during her monthly visits, turning the fabricated story into a real commitment. Later, the lady added, “We tried to read Genesis last night and got into a 45-minute argument about whether Noah’s ark had dinosaurs.” Story…