Lots of retirements, crushing debt for students, and fewer churches able to pay. Work-arounds and creative solutions.

Obvious to some. Controversial to others. NPR interviews Lisa Miller, psychologist from Columbia University, about her research into health and happiness.

Phil Yancey’s latest blog about grace and lunch with the Irish super group.

More and more people are feeling betrayed and abused by the church. Why?

Don’t mistake the hit movie as shallow or silly — from “America” — the Jesuit magazine

Jason Aldean’s “Small Town” is part of a long history of country music going after big cities, often carrying racist messages.

Did the Protestant Reformers change and have new ideas on sexual ethics? Jason Lief, on The Reformational, engages Nick Wolterstorff’s recent piece on the CRC

Absalom, Joab, and David — from Carol Bechtel.

Ben Corey on Patheos asks an interesting question. Shouldn’t intelligent atheists be more nuanced Bible readers?