Search

From my vantage point across the aisle and a few rows back, I studied Cardinal Francis George’s reaction when our Alitalia flight bound for Pope John Paul II’s funeral in Rome hit the kind of…

For whom may the personal be political, and how?

There were more than 70 proposals to name new state symbols in 2015, according to the AP. Intrepid citizens of Alaska spearheaded an effort to get Miss Alaska named as the state hostess. There was an…

Over the last year or two, LGBTQ issues have erupted with increasing frequency at evangelical colleges and universities, including George Fox University where professor Michael Bevis recently was more…

Writing on his blog at The Week, Damon Linker objects to the treatment of same-sex marriage opponent Ryan T. Anderson. The recent subject of an even-handed profile in the Washington Post, Anderson was…

Television’s best show explores faith, family ,identity, and the spectre of Reagan’s ‘evil empire’

It is a mild Kenyan day. With temperatures in the 70s, I smile with some Lutheran guilt because I know I am missing the worst of Minnesota’s frosty brunt of the so-called “polar vortex” (climate change in action). At this moment, instead of curling up with blankets…

Strap on your Fitbit and shop at Whole Foods instead of, you know, sitting down and thinking about how to be a good person.

The decision comes on page 8. The sound of screaming is coming from behind a locked door in a warehouse. You have to do something. What do you do? If you try to break the door down, you turn to page…

According to author Kevin Kruse, the idea that America is a “Christian nation” was invented only recently, forged by an alliance between industrialists and conservative clergy who preached the…