I like to think that my beliefs are pure, held only because they are demonstrably true, and maintained in a form untouched by the…

The headline on the cover of Self was printed in a font clearly designed to catch our attention. “Live the Dream! Strong / Sexy…

In 1873 a twenty-three-year-old French woman died of tuberculosis. It was a common disease back then and many died from this incurable pulmonary wasting…

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

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…

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

Long before I heard the term, disequilibrium was a part of the process of growth in my life. It’s the term educational theorists use…

There are always people who talk a good deal about prayer, but don’t go near the creation theater. It is not that they don’t…