Forty years ago a memorial wall, placed in a rent of the earth’s fabric, spoke eloquently to the American people about both the heroism and the futility of war. May we have ears to listen.
David HoekemaNovember 14, 2022
A phenomenal digital resource, includes an essay by Kristin Kobes DuMez of Calvin University.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJanuary 6, 2022
Who remembers church on New Years Eve? In the Black Church, Watch Night celebrated the Emancipation Proclamation.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJanuary 2, 2022
The "southernization" of American evangelicalism, as the influence of institutions like Christianity Today, the National Association of Evangelicals, and Wheaton Colleges wanes.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellOctober 28, 2021
Memories of how a Republican Midwestern governor welcomed refugees from southeast Asia in the 1970s and 80s.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellOctober 27, 2021
Much media and scholarly attention has pointed toward the coming "liberal" young Mormons. But it will it actually bring about change in the LDS?
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellOctober 5, 2021
Christian colleges were typically begun to serve the church. Over time, their support and constituents have broadened. Can a Christian college support church, business, and government? asks Chris Gehrz on Patheos.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellOctober 3, 2021
Right-to-lifers understood the arguments and goals of the women’s movement and were willing to engage with feminists to a certain extent . . . Unfortunately, a growing conservative contingent in the antiabortion movement viewed the women’s movement as an existential threat to their larger goals and actively sabotaged and undermined attempts by right-to-lifers to work with feminist groups.
Allison Vander BroekJune 7, 2021