For three years, from the ages of 13 to 15, I attended an evangelical Christian summer camp in Wears Valley, Tennessee. Billed as an adventure camp (it included activities such as archery and river ...
Students and faculty of Hampton High School were last together Sept. 26 at their home building, about eight miles away. The northeast Tennessee school was torn apart in the deadly storm.
Mostly white and affluent campers were taught a dangerous and un-Christ-like gospel. Poverty, as I keenly remember one counselor telling me, was a sin of individual laziness and ineptitude. The Jesus ...