To live in the modern Western world is to live where the public square is determinedly secularized. The players in the square in America,…

Since movies contain the stories of our culture, thoughtfully engaging them can prompt discussion about things that are otherwise almost impossible to raise in…

Some people and some generations stand out. Tom Brokaw celebrated those Americans who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World…

Many of our neighbors are dubious about truth claims, and tend to react negatively to anyone claiming that their beliefs are absolutely true and…

“Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.” [Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's…

Here’s the situation: A non-Christian friend asks how I can possibly take Old Testament laws against homosexuality seriously when other laws make provisions I…

Place yourself in this situation. You have been told you have an illness for which conventional medicine does not have a known or desirable…

In August, as Russian forces rolled into Georgia, I watched images of carnage from South Ossetia—a place I had never heard of, and perhaps…

In 1947, the great English poet W. H. Auden wrote a letter to his friend Ursula Niebuhr in which he confessed: “I don’t think…

When the recession began in 2008 and huge, fabled institutions were shown to be less secure than most people had believed, the word “trust”…