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

With the 4th of July on the horizon, I’d like to pick up on Tom Boogaart’s recent post about pledging allegiance. For most of my

By James Bratt Every now and then a past American president undergoes a radical change in historical reputation. The starkest case was probably that of

By James Bratt When I was a kid, I never got the big deal about Pentecost. For one, it didn’t come along with any special

by James Bratt I recently attended a conference at Notre Dame honoring the career of Mark Noll. As one of the most accomplished scholars of