When my son and his wife named our first grandson Silas, after the biblical character, I went back to the text with renewed interest. There it was, in the book of Acts, chapter 16. Silas and the apostle Paul were in prison. There was no possibility of escape. They were in the innermost cell, their feet fastened into stocks.
Sometime around midnight, Silas and Paul were singing hymns and praying, the other prisoners curious as to how they could be praising God at a time like this. And what
