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Young minds
Five-year-old Andy is in the shower looking for ways to use an entire bottle of blue, no-tears Aussie shampoo (the kind with the kangaroo on the bottle) without washing his hair....
End of an era
In an essay in the New York Times, written prior to the presidential election and its tension-filled aftermath, author Alan Ehrenhalt argues that the dominant fact of our political life du...
Lost in cyberspace
There are more possible moves on a chess board than there are neutrons in our universe, I once read in a chess encyclopedia....
In need of prayer
One of the theological puzzles with which I have struggled over the years is what the Puritans called “special providence”—that is, God’s miraculous intercession in human affairs in response to pra...
Smoothing the path (Luke 3:1-6)
I cherish the vision of what could have been a great moment in American poetry. One day my American literature professor told our class about Emily Dickinson, the quiet and reclusive woman who was satisfied to live in a circumscribed world in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Anticipation (1 Thessalonians 3:9-13)
In his book Abel’s Island William Steig tells the story of a mouse (Abel) who is marooned on an island for an entire year. In the first part of the book, Abel is all alone on the island....
Smoothing the path (Luke 3:1-6)
I cherish the vision of what could have been a great moment in American poetry. One day my American literature professor told our class about Emily Dickinson, the quiet and reclusive woman who was satisfied to live in a circumscribed world in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Horizontal mysteries
Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality, by Thomas Lynch...
The sound of faith
My Only Comfort: Death, Deliverance, and Discipleship in the Music of Bach, by Calvin R. StapertJohanne Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, by Christoph Wolff...
Stuck with liberalism
On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History, by John Patrick Diggins...
Postmodern Christians
Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion), edited by Merold Westphal...
Painted word
Painting the Word: Christian Pictures and Their Meanings, by John DrurySeeing Salvation: Images of Christ in Art, by Neil MacGregor with Erika Langmuir...
Women's space
Feminist Theology and Christian Theology: Cartographies of Grace, by Serene Jones...
The clerical life
A Bishop's Tale: Mathias Hovius Among His Flock in Seventeenth-Century Flanders, by Craig Harline and Eddy Put...
Slavery's legacy
Lay My Burden Down: Unraveling Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African Americans, by Alvin Poussaint, M.D., and Amy Alexander...