Tom is away this week attending the Steering Committee of the Christian Peacemaker Teams. In his place we introduce the Rev. Leah Ennis, an RCA

Dr. Christena Cleveland is someone I met on Twitter a year ago and have been following her closely since. She writes about faith and justice

This past Sunday in the “Bookends” back page column of the New York Times Book Review, writers Leslie Jamison and Adam Kirsch pondered some of

This week’s Time magazine features its annual “Ideas Issue,” and the cover says “The Case for Mockery.”  The story, written by the comedians Keegan-Michael Key

(Read Part I of the memo here. Read Jessica’s original post here. And yes, they’re related–Jim is Jessica’s uncle.) Hi Jessica: Your follow-up dispatch on grad

) Some might suggest that purpose of watching a film is to identify with the characters–to get caught up in the story. Sure, there are

My past two blog posts have tried to recast the church’s ministry in terms of worldliness. On the one hand, there’s a kind of worldliness

Last November I wrote here about a fabulous movie that told the little-known story of a number of the best back-up singers in the music