The letter that Harold Bontekoe wrote on the Sermon on the Mount being a “product of the culture of its time” and containing “some nonsense” (Letters, spring 2013) prompted a family memory. I suspect ...

“On this day, with the setting sun, the brightest light in the world and he who had been the strength of the Church was taken back to heaven.” So wrote Theodore Beza of the passing of John Calvin four ...