Behind every great pastor is her husband. At least, that's the way the Rev. Ann Stevens sees it. The supporting role that her husband, Hoyt, plays has helped her with her ministry. Sometimes a person's life takes a strange detour. Sometimes that detour is necessary, even crucial, to the journey.
Heads bow for a moment of silence.
Once the din of forks and knives dies down, the discussion begins. Calif. - William H. Duby's mother died when he was 7. A dozen feet from where Christian authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins were signing copies of their best-selling books lay a stack of Britney Spears magazines featuring the pop singer in bare midriff, her pants inching below her navel. Steve Taylor and his Chagall Guevara colleagues were fired up when they arrived in Los Angeles to do the cover for the band's first and only album for MCA Records. Here we are at the beginning of a glorious summer, and our poor pastors, those goofy people who worry about the health and wealth of the church, are sitting in their study chambers wondering if the congregation can last till fall.