Editors Note: IFWE’s managing editor, Jacqueline Isaacs, recently discussed this article on the Libertarian Christian Podcast. Learn more and listen to the conversation here. This article was first...
At the recent Kingdom Come Conference, bestselling author Stephen Mansfield issued a challenge that caught my attention: “We are in a battle of stories.” In a time when...
I began to read the beloved American classic Moby Dick: Or The Whale by Herman Melville for the first time in the summer of 2021. Melville’s prose soon...
In December 2005, I sat with my wife in a small Chicago theater watching a charming production of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” I found myself unexpectedly moved. In...
And in despair I bowed my head/”There is no peace on earth,” I said/”For hate is strong, and mocks the song/of peace on earth, goodwill to men!” –...
A powerful scene at the end of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings book was not in the movie. After the ring is destroyed at...
I puzzle throughout December: “Is all of our holiday stress a recent-days phenomenon?” And in my most reflective moments, I ask, “Is there any way to find deeper...
My list of books includes an autobiography, play, and a fiction story. I chose these three (my favorites) because they each have something powerful to say about the...
Growing up in an evangelical household, I noticed tension between secular culture and Christianity. There was secular music, and there was Christian music. There was Harry Potter, and...
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