I don’t consider myself much of a joiner, but recently my wife and I joined a book club, my first but not hers. There are

I expanded our secret garden this year, adding an enormous room filled with vegetable beds with a meditation platform in the center. “Are you sure

Every new religious movement is met with resistance by outsiders. Contemporary praise and worship (CPW) today — and the prior movements from which it has

Wow! The Dutch really know how to enjoy their religion. They even named a church after a mixed drink. The thought occurred to me, in

I am an American who happens to have a Dutch last name. That’s one of the surprising things I’ve learned while living in The Hague

Lately, I have somewhat begun to remove the name of God from my lips. I didn’t say “Merry Christmas” in the little cards I wrote

I shut my laptop abruptly late one afternoon. I realized I was holding my breath. My neck and scalp were tingling and my shoulders were

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A church is looking for a new pastor… A regional church meeting is praying for God’s direction and guidance… A son speaks a eulogy at

I was introduced to Christian nationalism in subtle ways. I never gave a second thought to the overt display of the American flag alongside the

 “The most important part of writing, and really life,” Kiese Laymon’s mother tells him, “is revision.” The instruction comes in his remarkable 2018 memoir, Heavy,

I won’t forget that first week of remote teaching during the early days of the pandemic. Behind closed doors, I spoke into my laptop from

Editor’s Note: Yesterday, we ran David Ryden’s summary of three First Amendment cases the Supreme Court ruled on during the 2022-22 term. Today, David offers

Editor’s Note: We invited Supreme Court expert David Ryden to explain and comment on the Court’s rulings in three recent First Amendment cases. Part one

He held my response quizzically, as if examining an object entirely new and foreign to him. “You don’t know,” he repeated, “the impact of your

Editor’s Note: A few months ago, the poet Thomas Lynch raised the question in our podcast: “How do we come to be the ones we

Just one year shy of a half-century ago, two momentous pronouncements were made with long-lasting implications for many lives. Each was handed down by a