This photo was taken by J. Ivy Foster and sent to us from our neighbors at First Baptist. It was taken right after the implosion of their old buildings on Saturday. The work is part of a building project that has so far received commitments for $115 million, the largest capital campaign ever for a Protestant church in the United States. Says the note from the PR man who sent the pic: “When the dust from the implosion cleared, the sun shone on the sanctuary, which was undamaged by the destruction all around it. Church members took this as a sign from God affirming their plans to create a campus equipped for 21st-century ministry.”
With all due respect and all neighborly goodwill, I take the sunlit steeple as a sign of meteorological conditions and the geometry of the buildings downtown. No question, though, that’s one hell of picture (if you’ll pardon the expression).
