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Reparations Should Not Trump Communion

Casey Chalk

Throughout Christian history, periods of social crisis have typically provoked an intensification of the faithful’s belief and practice: more prayer, more Bible reading, more services, more public declarations of...

Captain Bob

Casey Chalk

On the day my family moved into our home in Northern Virginia, we found a bottle of champagne with a card from the sellers affixed. They congratulated us on...

Texting With AI Jesus

Casey Chalk

Want to talk to the Son of God? There’s an app for that. Text With Jesus, a Los Angeles–based product that launched in July, replicates an instant messaging platform...

A Cruciform Vision

Casey Chalk

A Grain of Wheat: Collected Sermons of Father Leonard R. Kleinedited by christa ressmeyer kleinrncluny, 372 pages, $29.95 Preaching Christ means to feed the soul, make it righteous, set...

Class Acts

Casey Chalk

Another summer, another moving season in Northern Virginia, a region filled with peripatetic military and federal families. Some folks, like us, move by choice—our three-bedroom townhome with no yard...