Like many families throughout America, we watched Billy Graham’s crusades on television […]
Commentary
Who Do People Say Billy Graham Was? It Depends
In the days following Billy Graham’s passing last week, there have been a slew of articles opining on his life and legacy. […]
Voices: Repetition and the Heart
Lingawe Sarah Singa, a 19-year-old junior at Lycee Vanette, the girls’ high school at Karawa, had died […]
Voices: This Is My Home
In April of 1992 I was brought to the United States of America; I was six months old […]
The Hazards of Artificially Intelligent Design
I think a lot about artificial intelligence, in part because so much sci-fi uses AI as a dystopian horror trope. […]
Whatever Happened to Pietism?
In their wonderful new book, The Pietist Option, Covenanters Mark Pattie and Chris Gehrz frequently cite Dale Brown, a major historian of the Pietist movement. […]
What Do We Want?
All my life I’ve been an avid reader, and as a long-time blogger, I’ve built up an online community with other writers, many of whom are published. So I often get a chance to read early copies of their latest […]
Compass Bearings: A Maturing Life
The saying goes, “You are only young once, but you can be immature forever.” The Apostle Paul understood that a maturing life with Christ is not inevitable. […]
Voices: Wisdom from a Dying Friend
Sometimes a friendship defies convention, or, at least, makes one […]
When Two Sides Are One Too Many
In progressive Portland, the idea that anyone could be so enamored by the cultural traditions of the Old South that they could overlook the horrors of American slavery is, well, laughable. It’s funny because it’s ridiculous—and also because it’s true. […]
Exactly. Especially. Now.
It’s late fall over here on the West Coast. The angle of the light is changing, days are shorter, breezes are brisker. Soon we will begin making plans for Thanksgiving, hoping against hope that there will be more to be thankful for at that end of the month than there is right now. […]
Compass Bearings: Burden More Than Vision
This is a major year for leadership transitions in the Covenant. Two conferences, Southeast and Canada, will be searching for superintendents. […]