Advancing the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God.
‘That summer sojourn, / forty years gone’
Drawstrings dangled, elastic held; polished nails picked at nubbled nylon.
We dove and split the sunlit water closing quick as time behind us.
Good Humor dripped manna for ants wandering sere and grainy sidewalks.
Dragonfly by day, firefly by night, we made our way under watchful eyes.
That summer sojourn, forty years gone, just children then, still children now.
John Savoie teaches great books at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
Invisibility, Hudson Taylor, and the mystery of the world: The hopes and fears of invisibility, Hudson Taylor’s mission at 150, and the mystery of the world.
What baseball’s most amusing team gets right about joy in sports.
Yoichi Fujiyabu has spent three decades sharing God’s love to people who want to end their lives.
News
Many say the activist’s inflammatory statements on race should inform how we remember his life.
News
Known for confronting critical theory, moral relativism, and secular ideologies, Baucham died a month into leading a new seminary in Florida.
The history of a prominent church pastored by MLK in Alabama shows the reason African Americans often don’t embrace either term.
News
Armed gang continues to hold him after family paid the ransom.
Review
Historian Molly Worthen studies dynamic leaders, eager followers, and their shared efforts to “consecrate a new reality.”
