Sentimentalism

As a mom, I found pressure—and then freedom—in counting the years with my children.

A new movie based on a Stephen King novella aims at profundity—and comes up short.

Why we shouldn’t worship the golden calf of the ‘pre-COVID’ days.

Today’s hipster irony and OMG sentimentality distracts from real-life sincerity.

How we can avoid over-sentimentalizing the holidays.

A historian explores the sappier side of evangelical life.

Leaders weigh in on whether churches should celebrate Mother’s Day in worship services.

How Easter Sunday can become the unhealthy denial of death.

The so-called Christmas wars are much larger than we imagine.

Why we disdain feel-good spirituality but shouldn’t.