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…

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…

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

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…

One of the things I love about winter in Minnesota is how tracks are left to tell a story in newly fallen snow. In…

How does one pray in an age marred by terrorism? What words do I use, and for what do I ask? When I recognize…

On learning to hear A couple of years ago I published an essay on Art House America that I titled, “On Learning to Hear.”…