If you go to St. Louis, you can see a historical marker commemorating the spot where the wagon trains gathered to begin their trip toward the golden promise of California. Thousands of people would meet in Missouri, form a train of ...
I’m with Peter Wehner, who argues that evangelicals, in their unblinking alignment with partisan politics in the form of Republican, sold their soul and lost their integrity. This is but one example. When Francis Schaeffer, ...
I [Jeremy Berg] went to the polling place to cast my votes, and ended up casting non-partisan prayers for all the candidates. As I stood over that ballot with pen in hand, looking at all the names and offices, tears dropped ...
I got off of social media (except for work-related things) a few weeks ago. I highly recommend a good fast from social media every now and then, especially during an election season. I chose to fast not because of some super spiritual ...
Americans have read the apostle Paul for their entire history, and have chosen texts that resonate with the times. Slave owners frequently used the apostle Paul to remind their slaves of divinely-ordained and divinely-commanded obedience ...
Bringing together seven of the most important ideas in our world… before I get on with it, here are the seven:
Justice
Love
Spirituality
Beauty
Freedom
Truth
Power
These seven are the focus of N.T. Wright’s ...
Aimee Byrd wrote a book. She’s in a conservative, traditional branch of the Reformed faith. Pastors are male, theologians are male, power pervades. Some didn’t like her book. It exposed male power where power was not meant ...
At the heart of Christianity is a person, and only second a set of ideas. At the heart of Jesus is the resurrection and a completely surprising one true life flows from Jesus. All this was a total and shocking surprise in the 1st ...
Almighty and everlasting God,
in Christ you have revealed your glory among the nations:
Preserve the works of your mercy,
that your Church throughout the world may persevere
with steadfast faith in the confession of your Name;
through ...
David George Moore
It’s been my privilege to be in the personal spaces of several writers. Among others, Pulitzer winner Tony Horwitz warmly welcomed me at his home on Martha’s Vineyard as did William F. Buckley at his ...
