On Good Friday I watched Killing Jesus, a television movie based on Bill O’Reilly’s book by the same name. It was worse than I anticipated. The historical representation...
If Francis Schaeffer was alive today, Sufjan Stevens would make him very proud. Stevens’s new album, Carrie and Lowell, which debuted last Tuesday, was named best new music...
One of my favorite hymns is “Joy to the World.” We usually sing it around Christmas, but for years I have thought of it as an Easter hymn....
Annually the Easter weekend takes us through a wrenching drama, from the horror of a humiliating death to the hope of new life and resurrection. It would be...
While my husband and I were dating we attended a small Methodist church situated right on the edge of town, pastored by the minister who would one day...
Does our earthly work matter to God? Yes it does, replies Darrell Cosden in his book The Heavenly Good of Earthly Work. Central to his argument is the...
Depending on who you ask, Eskimos may have over 100 distinct words for snow. Why? Because language has a unique ability to create distinctions between things in our...
Even as early as Genesis 2:18, when God said “It is not good for man to be alone,” it’s been evident we’re designed to live in community. God...
In season three of House of Cards, a group of Tibetan monks are invited to the White House to perform a Buddhist tradition involving the creation of a...
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