This issue of CHRISTIANITY TODAY has in it three essays of significant import to our readers. J. Edgar Hoover, America’s best-known law-enforcement agent, takes a hard look at America then and now and warns of the pitfalls ahead. We would do well to heed what he says.
Billy Graham addressed the members of the Washington Press Club recently and we happily print his address. The illusions he discusses are deeply imbedded in the minds of many Christians and should be eradicated as quickly as possible. The Church cannot minister to the needs of men effectively until it embraces and propagates the world-view of the Bible, which conflicts sharply with that of secular man.
Lois Ottaway approaches the racial conflict of our day through the medium of black literature. Some of the books she mentions convey viewpoints unacceptable to us and to our readers. Others will be read with pleasure and appreciation. But we need to read all of these to grasp what men with black skins are thinking and to understand how they look at the white world and its power structures. Even when we do not agree with what is said, it will help us in our task of reconciling race to race and bringing the saving Gospel of Christ to black as well as white communities.
