The tributes and praise for Nelson Mandela have come pouring in, from every corner of the globe and every segment on the political spectrum. For

Everyone 55 or older remembers it—remembers where they were when they heard that President Kennedy had been shot. That the threshold of recollection is so,

Had a great discussion with faculty colleagues last night about my biography of Abraham Kuyper. Some of the people in the room had been reared

I’ve been reading some of the flood of books coming out ahead of next year’s centennial of the start of World War I. There’s something

Thanks to Jason Lief for covering for me yesterday. I spent the better part of a week earlier this semester in Amsterdam and it seems

I’m down at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College this weekend for a conference on . . . Billy Graham. The festivities opened last

I know I promised to finish up some reflections on Harriet Beecher Stowe and Calvinism this week, but yesterday’s 50th-anniversary commemoration of Martin Luther King’s

Late summer means slogging through tasks you signed up for under fairer prospects and distant deadlines. For me that means writing an essay on the

  My mind keeps circling back to Trayvon Martin—not to the person, admittedly, nor to the trial with its outrageous verdict. But to the Stand