No Intelligence Test for the Family of God
May 10th 2008
“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”
I ran across that rather jarring statement the other day on the Internet. It came from the mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), an extraordinarily intelligent man — and a very vocal atheist.
Those are the opening lines of my guest column today at the Newport News Daily Press: “There’s No ‘Intelligence Test’ for the Family of God.” I invite you to take a look at it.
(That link will expire in a few weeks. The article is also available permanently in PDF form here.)