Essays on Culture

I got my first taste of Spirit-filled higher life theology from the long-serving, recently deceased pastor of First Baptist Church, Atlanta, Charles Stanley. Stanley’s The Wonderful Spirit-Filled Life and its

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Heath Veuleman’s powerful article “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” got me thinking about so many different things. One of the main issues, though, ties into some artwork I

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The sound of a train barreling over our bedroom woke us. “Do you hear that?” my wife and I asked each other simultaneously. Outside the window, the sky was illumined

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Something has been bothering me for a very long time. I have been a member of various churches for more than 45 years, and each congregation would have considered itself

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“I thought we were the good guys.” Samantha Laruso (Mary Mouser) shares her disillusionment with her dad, Daniel (Ralph Macchio) in the first episode of season three of the Netflix

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Growing up in a small Pentecostal church in rural Arkansas provided me with a biblical education that emphasized the more spectacular elements of Scripture. Fire from heaven. Giants falling. Kings

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A Christian college trend There is a disturbing trend that I have noticed at Christian colleges. It is a trend that has been confirmed to me by other professors with

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“Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

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This past Friday, I received the following message from Molly Steenson, CEO & President of the American Swedish Institute, my neighbor and venerable Twin Cities institution, which is ten blocks

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“Time, like an ever-rolling stream,Bears all its sons away;They fly forgotten, as a dreamDies at opening day.”—Isaac Watts January of 2026 ended heavily with national tension and grief. Not for

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The GOP Reinvents Itself Though I’ve brokered many disappointments in the last ten years, none has been so acute as seeing roughly half my friends and extended family members exchanging

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“Are you okay?” Reportedly, those were the last words of Alex Pretti as he sought to protect two women who were being assaulted by government agents. I am not okay.

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