Confronting Evil with God: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Curious Case of Jesus Knocking at the Door
by Michael Barram
As a kid, in churches and other Christian spaces, I occasionally encountered prints of…
by David Lai
Three months before King laid out his religious treatise justifying civil disobedience in a Birmingham jail cell, he attended the 14–17 January 1963 National Conference on Religion and Race. The conference, gathering some seven hundred religious Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish leaders at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, advertised itself as the first ecumenical conference organized to address race relations.…
by Micah Yongo
For the sensible Christian, reckoning well with modernity means cultivating a willingness to upgrade the resolution at which we examine both it and ourselves.…
by Luke Schulz
We killed the mystical element, believing that we were freeing ourselves from superstitious nonsense. In so doing, we forgot that the human mind exists in a balance. The result has been the current dominance of the masculine element, rationality, while the mystical ‘feminine’ has been relegated to the margins at best.…
by Soo-Inn Tan
Love, purpose, resilience, the answer to the reality of death, and a hunger for transcendence. If we have these five things in place in our lives, we have a good chance of living a meaningful life.…
by Matthew Dickerson
Although I’d been with my father for the two-hour neurological examination two weeks earlier, I wasn’t present for the follow-up when the doctors formally announced a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. I was camping and teaching by a wilderness lake in Alaska, with two fellow instructors and ten students.…
by Monika B. Hilder
What do we love about fairy tales? How do they, along with Narnian…
by John Christopher Frame
Do you enjoy “traveling” through someone else’s stories? Stories that pull you somewhere new—across the country or into a fresh way of seeing things?…
by Betty Spackman
I am from a generation of artists of faith who lived through decades of poor art from the Christian community, and many of us made striving for excellence a necessary priority to change that. Things are different now, but mediocre, thoughtless, and cliché work is still an unacceptable offering and does not show love to our neighbor.…
by Dan Grote
This, my friend, is the REAL story of the REAL Con-Air, as related by a REAL convicted criminal who is, without question, FAKING it as a writer. There’s an old saying here in the penitentiary, “you can be whatever you want to be when you come to prison.”…