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The Campus Ministry Boom

In his senior year of high school, Chris faced a spiritual crisis. He’d grabbed his brass ring: an invitation to play football at Harvard. It was “the biggest high in my life,” he says. But then the high ended, and he was left feeling empty. “I had put so much reliance on it to give me . . . . Continue Reading »

Not a Lament but an Ode to the Makers

Someone somewhere long ago      with a pair of hands, a bit of earthand a thirsty soul, crafteda beautiful bowl. Just as someonenot so long ago made a buffaloof chrome, a staircase madeof stone, a cracked egg of dinosaurand a pendant made of bone. Just as someone long ago with a . . . . Continue Reading »

Briefly Noted

Don’t set your expectations by this book’s academic imprint. Being God’s Image is, as the BibleProject’s Tim Mackie rightly describes it, “accessible.” Expect lots of exclamation points, but the author’s enthusiasm is generally infectious, not nauseating. Joy is her . . . . Continue Reading »

Two Owls

Two owls with awls for eyes                            look through the leather dark.Wise, we say. And so they are,              shrewd masters of their barn, great misers of the moon,  . . . . Continue Reading »

Gather Ye

Ladew Gardens Hand-in-hand, through the famous garden’s roses,We stroll while gangs of children run amokUnwatched. You don’t want kids, you tell me. StruckBy the remontants, we pause, and our posesBriefly fail. Late light cut through by green shadesIn patterns like a roulette wheel. Dark . . . . Continue Reading »

Progressive Supersessionism

Leftist attacks on Zionism, which in many quarters have devolved into overt anti-Semitism, seem strange alongside the left’s cultural agenda of diversity and inclusion. But perhaps the contradiction is only apparent. Today’s constant celebrations of diversity are meant to obscure a drive for . . . . Continue Reading »

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