Abigail Rine Favale

Joshua Harris has officially denounced and discontinued publication of his bestselling book I Kissed Dating Goodbye. Continue Reading »

I teach in a great books program at an Evangelical university. Almost all students in the program are born-and-bred Christians of the nondenominational variety. A number of them have been both thoroughly churched and educated through Christian schools or homeschooling curricula. Yet an . . . . Continue Reading »

Christians, especially evangelicals, must recover the beauty and coherence of a teleological worldview.  Continue Reading »

Six seasons into the show, characters on The Walking Dead discover that taking on the immense risk of bringing new life into the world is what counts as really “living” (as opposed to merely surviving). Continue Reading »

Subverted recounts the untold history of how the feminist and pro-abortion movements became allied. Part exposé, part conversion memoir, Browder’s book defies easy categorization, but by the end, I understood her approach. Browder’s honest account of her personal life—including her choice to have an abortion, despite being in a loving marriage—highlights the contradictions between reality and the flashy fantasy of the ­sexually liberated woman. . . . Continue Reading »

Last Thursday morning, I was teaching a freshman honors seminar in Newberg, Oregon. We were discussing Genesis 32, that enigmatic passage where Jacob wrestles with God. Just south of us, in Roseburg, Oregon, my students’ counterparts were being murdered in their writing classroom. In another of . . . . Continue Reading »