I’ve had a long adversarial relationship with American civil religion. It began with all those invocations I heard as a teenager in the mid-‘60s that

I was in a place, and taking a part, I never thought I’d see. But I was not alone in my bewilderment. One of the

Ok, kids, it’s time for the answers to the music jumble in my last post. Get ‘em all right and you’ll find your prize at

This end of the school year brings extra tumult for me, beyond the usual press of grading, farewell receptions, putting the books away, organizing the

I was on the road again last weekend (this has got to stop!) for the annual conference sponsored by the Abraham Kuyper Center for Public

I’m down at Notre Dame this weekend for a discussion of Duke Divinity School Professor Grant Wacker’s recent book on Billy Graham, America’s Pastor (Harvard

This time I’m not surprised that Lent hasn’t turned out the way it’s supposed to be. Uhh, that I didn’t get into Lent—do the work

With a trip to Britain just behind me, then a full week of teaching plus catching up with duties delayed, all under the pall of

Ok, Valentine’s Day. A couple topics naturally come to mind. We could meditate on the saint himself and how his somewhat obscure record came to