Lots of people are eagerly awaiting their copy of Marilynne Robinson’s new novel Lila. Me too, though realistically my schedule probably won’t let me get

With my mother’s memorial service just one week past, I hope you’ll accept one more post about encountering the end of life. Next time a

My mother died the night before last. It was the end of six months or so of steady decline from an already diminished state of

From time to time I like to use this blog to air out some conversation, or combat, going on inside the guild of American historians.

My grandpa would always read Psalm 90 for family devotions on New Year’s Eve. I witnessed this once, and my mom said it was that

The sounds of fatigue and sorrow have been pretty constant on this blog of late, and for good reason. So here’s a curveball. No one’s

Ok, it’s the first weekend in August and with it comes a slight tremor of forewarning that summer’s going to end. The mind panics a

Last time I threw an elbow to my right regarding the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, so this week I’ll exercise a

  I see that Wheaton College, the “Harvard of the evangelicals,” has been first out of the gate in riding this week’s Hobby Lobby decision