This summer I began as the interim pastor of my church. For the evening sermons we’ve been working through Our World Belongs to God along

Tom Verducci recently wrote a fascinating article in Sports Illustrated in which he laments the demise of baseball. He examines the statistics that show baseball is falling

An interesting piece in the New York Times compares Comey’s experience to what women regularly endure in the workplace, including sexual harassment or sexual assault.

Lately, there’s been much debate about the Benedict Option, a Christian response to secularism in the West. The focus is on a withdrawal from secular

Slovaj Žižek likes to use the example of Santa Claus to make a point about the nature of belief. If you ask parents, they tell

When playing the hero went terribly wrong, and he had recovered from his injuries, Saint Francis came upon a broken down church where he encountered an

It’s that time of the semester when I try to help students appreciate John Calvin. It’s a difficult task for a variety of reasons. Many

I just finished Frederick Backman’s book A Man Called Ove, the story of an old curmudgeon named Ove who unsuccessfully tries to kill himself. Ove is

Last Monday a friend and I pulled up to a duplex in Pella, Iowa to load some books into the back of my van. The