Life
Sending your kids off to college today? Or are you starting classes yourself? I want you to know that many Christian professors begin their new
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Film
Since its release in early June, the Fred Rogers documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor, has been quietly taking America by storm. It’s being called
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Modern Culture
Last summer, I accepted a faculty job at a Baptist University, and when the first new faculty meeting rolled around, I was the only woman
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Church Culture
Last Tuesday, I took time out on a work night to go to the movies and watch a documentary about the Pope. (I know. I
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Modern Culture
Each year when the weather warms, I start longing to spend my days in the sun, stretched out in the grass. I can see myself
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Music
When most of us think of holiday music, we probably imagine annoying pop renditions of Christmas classics. If we can stretch our imaginations beyond carols
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Music
Have you ever noticed how many love songs are about the first flush of love or about the confusing ups and downs and losses of
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Books
The tree is packed away and the last of the Christmas goodies is nothing but extra pounds on the scale. Perhaps, like me, you feel
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Holiday Season
My husband hates the song “Silent Night.” He mostly thinks the music is boring and sleep-inducing (fitting for a lullaby, of course), but this year
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Current Events
Last week, I introduced my literature students to the poem, “The Second Coming,” William Butler Yeats’s vision of modern apocalypse in a world where “things fall
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