TERRY MATTINGLY: Christian commentary promoted among letter writers
8th Sep 2005, 22:34 GMT
(SH) - It was hard for businessman Jim Russell to pick up his newspaper without thinking about one simple church statistic. According to the Yellow Pages, there were 400 churches in and around Lansing, Mich. That meant there were 400-plus ministers and many thousands of lay people who either read the newspaper or decided not to. Surely, he thought, these readers must have some kind of reaction to what they saw in the news.