By Brian Keepers This past Christmas my sister-in-law, an ordained minister in the RCA and a Ph.D. student at Wheaton, gave me a compelling little

by Katy Sundararajan I am the one who prepares for the trips that we take in our household. My husband might dream up the trip,

  Sumac and scrubby grass, dense-leaved oaks and maples, jumbles of every possible green. Blue spruce, Douglas fir, white pines, red pines, the astonishing symmetry

The word lobotomy strikes terror in the heart of most of us today, despite the fact that the procedure was once the darling of mental health professionals–and

For several summers I’ve taught a course on global literature organized around the topic of “Apocalypse.” But the course material isn’t what you might expect–no

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up

When I studied the Book of Genesis in seminary, one of the first things my professor, Ray Van Leeuwen, pointed out was that cosmos is

I’ve noticed an uptick in alternative history stories. Maybe this is connected to “alternative facts.” Then again, people have always enjoyed alternatives to reality. Is

By E. Hughes You are going to hell. At least that’s what the white church planter tells you over Facebook when you ask God to