Rebecca Koerselman’s post earlier this week about the “Competing Narratives” of American history struck a nerve with me. For decades I’ve been giving presentations for

N. C. Wyeth, “Thanksgiving Banquet” Today being today, I’m posting a (slightly altered) piece previously published in the November 2005 issue of Perspectives magazine. Thanksgiving

Quo Vadis promo still, 1951 I’m on the road again and so have to write this the day before the midterm elections even though it

‘Easter Morning,’ BBC Wales I planned to follow up to my last post, on Neo-Calvinism, with a bit of polemics, but then I thought why

Last Friday I had the honor of speaking at “Sharply into the Wind,” the program marking Cornelis van der Kooi’s emeritation at the Free University

The Chairmen of the Word, and World: Lausanne Conference on World Evangelization, 1974 Please pardon my submitting a book review for today’s post. I happen

Death has been in the air lately. There were the funerals of John McCain and Aretha Franklin, minutely analyzed in the national media. Here in

“Gassed,” John Singer Sargent (1919). Imperial War Museum, London   The End of August and the End of the World For most of us, the

[Note: longish post. The story takes a while to tell…] Last week I was leafing through some back pages in the history of my own