A door opens to the "Exodus" section inside the Museum of the Bible, Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, in Washington. The project is largely funded by the conservative Christian owners of the Hobby Lobby crafts chain. Hobby Lobby president Steve Green says the aim is to educate not evangelize. But skeptics call the project a Christian ministry disguised as a museum. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
August 18, 2018
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FAITHFUL OBSERVATIONS
The purpose of these articles is to highlight Christian ministries in our local area but I am taking a break this week to present a “must see” tourist destination. This is the Museum of the Bible, which opened last November in Washington, D.C., just a block off the mall and within two blocks from the Capitol. This is a privately funded museum that opened with more than 51,000 donors and the bulk of the $500 million cost coming from the Green family that owns Hobby Lobby.