Essays

Several of the people I have been working with professionally have recently declared their commitment to the Christian faith to be absolute. They have complete buy-in, they have proclaimed. I

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As the dog Peabody told the boy Sherman in “Peabody’s Improbable History” on TV’s “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends” in the late 1950s and 1960s, “Every dog

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  “Do you know why people get together at Christmas? Because every time they do it might be the last time. Every Christmas is last Christmas.” -from Dr. Who 253,

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You’re not swearing when you say it’s been a Hell of a year. You put it down on paper, and it doesn’t look like much. But things add up. Things

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Today is the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. It is our nation’s 250th birthday!! This is a momentous day. Yet I find myself sitting here

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I still remember America’s 200th birthday, or at least I remember it the way a five-year-old remembers things: not in policy or politics, not in historical nuance, but in colors,

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The contemporary Christian rock group Petra dedicated an entire album to the theme of spiritual warfare when they released This Means War in 1987.  With a title track that channeled

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I am not incredibly nostalgic for the turn of the century, but there is one thing I miss about it. Sure, the late 90s and early 2000s weren’t perfect —

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For over a decade, the United States of America was a dry nation. The Volstead Act was a nationwide constitutional ban on alcohol in all its forms, and while statistically,

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Is beauty objective or subjective? There are extremely different opinions about the ontology of beauty. For many today, beauty is subjective, merely in the eye of the beholder. For others,

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Every year at this time, my social media feeds and television channels become flooded with Halloween-themed content. But given the real-world horrors unfolding globally, it’s challenging to find anything imaginary

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There’s a funny thing about living with chronic pain. Eventually, you get used to it. I don’t mean that it goes away. I don’t mean that it no longer hurts.

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