Living in Boston can be a heady trip for a budding academic. Even if you’re across the river from Harvard and MIT, it’s a city known for its education scene. Like many who studied there, I never wanted to leave. A fringe benefit of being a student of religion was that a short trip would take you to Peabody. Why? Peabody was home to CBD—Christian Book Distributors. In their showroom they had rock-bottom prices for something theology students crave—books. That was many years ago now, and over time CBD grew to be the largest distributor of Christian paraphernalia in the country. In my mind they’ll always be associated with happy little trips that ended in armloads of reading. What more could you want?
A story by Emily McFarlan Miller explains why the revered CBD is changing its name. Cannabidiol…
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