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Many Heroes, So Little Heroism

Owen Strachan

As America lurches toward a fully same-sex-affirming public square, it is increasingly urged along by that most curious of cheerleaders: the “affirming pastor.” Those acquainted with even a passing...

Religion in a Heart-Shaped Box

Owen Strachan

I never have known the joy of owning a small, pink, heart-shaped music box. In point of fact, I never will. I suppose, with two daughters in the home,...

The Church is Wrong

Owen Strachan

So charge many of our fellow young Christians, most recently amidst the controversy over Matthew Vines’s God and the Gay Christian, which argues that the Bible and the Church are...

The Naked College Quad

Owen Strachan

Gray and magisterial, squarely planted in the heart of campus, Bowdoin’s chapel keeps watch over all who traverse the quad. During my own time at Bowdoin, it was usually...

Football and the Limits of Conscience

Owen Strachan

A recent slew of football deaths have shaken many who follow the game. Research is increasingly suggesting that there may well be definable links between the blunt trauma of...