Church sanctuaries and auditoriums across the community are transformed into jungles, gardens and the snowy peaks of Alaska as vacation Bible school approaches.

What happens when a man sees not just a rock, but the rock? Michelangelo’s Pietà offers a parable of how human creativity, rightly ordered, gives glory back to God.

Molly Gaines, a parent who lives in an Ohio town with seven churches and no grocery store, says that in poor rural places a ...