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50 years as seminary professor
Pin ItBaptist seminary professor Glenn Hinson, who has drawn admiration from many former students while also serving as a lightning rod during the Southern Baptist controversies, was honored recently...
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A survivor’s heroes
Pin ItFred Gross — whom I interviewed for today’s article on his new Holocaust memoir, “One Step Ahead of Hitler” — spent many of his adult years as a journalist covering Yale University. One of his...
View ArticleLetter from Miep Gies
Pin ItMiep Gies, a woman who helped shelter Anne Frank and other Jews during the Holocaust, is being rightly remembered for the hero she was upon her death this week at age 100. Gies was a young,...
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Holocaust memoir in paperback
Pin ItA Louisville author’s Holocaust memoir, issued in hardback last year, is now coming out in paperback. “One Step Ahead of Hitler: A Jewish Child’s Journey Through France,” tells of Fred Gross’...
View ArticleA Jewish response to Mohler
Pin ItReader Mark Goldstein wrote the following response to my most recent Saturday column. I had quoted Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, on Southern Baptists’...
View ArticleTop Kentucky religion news of 2011
Pin ItYesterday we wrote about top religion stories of the year, nationally and internationally. Some of Kentucky’s biggest religion stories in no particular order — some of which appeared on the...
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A remarkable new chapter in the saga of Fred Gross and his family’s escape...
Pin ItThe story is just as stunning on second reading. A Jewish family escapes from Belgium ahead of the advancing German army in 1940, then spends more than two years on the run across the perimeter...
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A cameo appearance of a Holocaust-resistance hero
Pin ItThis week’s story on Louisvillian Fred Gross’ discovery of a 72-year-old news photo, depicting him and his family fleeing into France from German invaders, drew many responses from people moved...
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Amid the terrors of Holocaust, love prevailed for couple
Pin ItThe Rothschilds, seated in front to the right, at a 2012 ceremony in Kehl, Germany, honoring Renee's family members, killed in the Holocaust. From Baden Online. I was giving a talk during career...
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An unsung hero and his ‘children’
Pin ItA young Nicholas Winton shown with one of the hundreds of children he rescued in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s. From “Nicky’s Family,” Menemsha Films. In my Saturday column this week, I talk...
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