(To read part one, click here.) It must have been over twenty years ago now that I was sitting with my family in church, and the “Praise” band started rocking
In the midst of a season that calls to mind the birth of the Christ child, and the upheaval in the world of the occupation by the Roman Empire surrounding
A year and a half ago or so, I wrote an essay about something I called “Trumpamentalism.” I wasn’t really trying to invent another clever political insult. I was trying
What does it mean to minister? While the universal church may not have arrived at a definitive answer, I have some thoughts. First of all, in the New Testament directive
There is a muted wistfulness in Springfield, Illinois, that always seems to be hiding just below the surface of this town. Springfield possesses a kind of elegiac beauty, as though
Some readers may remember the “satanic panic” over secular music in the 1980s. On April 27, 1982, at the California Assembly’s Consumer Protection and Toxics Committee meeting in Sacramento, Calif.,
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
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,
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
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 —
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,
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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