by Michael Barram
In August of 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood before an intensely divided nation,…
by Arthur Aghajanian
The stakes have increased in recent years as relationships fracture under the strain of our political divide. Today, tribalism holds the United States hostage, with partisan political loyalties stoking fear and hatred between…
by Ryan Pemberton
Chris Hoke is the cofounder and executive director of Underground Ministries, which mobilizes faith communities and businesses across the Pacific Northwest into relationships of mutual spiritual transformation…
An interview between Ryan Pemberton and Chris Hoke of Underground Ministries…
by John Christopher Frame…
Arthur Aghajanian and poet and theologian d’Angelo Dia discuss what the medium of comic books can teach us about applying theological imagination to stories in the Bible…
The right to life, as the basis of all rights, cannot exist in any meaningful way if in every place you put your body down to rest, or any place you attempt to meet a creaturely need, you get asked to move on…
by Jan Lermitte
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I did not immediately love the work of Dorothy L. Sayers. I tend to read detective novels as escapist fiction, and Sayers’ stories are often too sophisticated for that. Too many epigraphs by Shakespeare, Spencer, and other long-dead male writers; complex characters who represent various classes of modern Britain after WWI and quote Latin, French, or speak with a broad Cockney accent…
by Tony Lawton
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I am an actor. Since 1998, I have been performing solo versions of C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce and The Screwtape Letters. I usually get hired by evangelical institutions to perform these works…
by Claudia May
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In her recording of the song, “Flattery Will Get You Everywhere,” country singer Lynn Anderson mines various facets of flattery. She acknowledges that if someone utters unkind words, her mind “would soon close from ear to ear.” But if a suitor or acquaintance flatters her, she devours their words and “lick[s] the platy clean . . . so starved” is she for “pretty words [that] are ever insincere.” She is cognizant of the calculating traits of flattery, but she does not seem to care because she thrives on the attention flattery offers. Emboldened by the charisma of flattery, she tells her flatterer to “brag [her] up” because “flattery will get you everywhere.” The back note of these lyrics suggests that the one being flattered is a co-conspirator, a willing accomplice to flattery’s devious and perhaps not-so-devious ways. …