Essay

Oct 23, 2025 Essay

Topics:

• Civil Discourse
• Education
• Relationship

Looking Upward

Why boys need to see models of responsibility.

Oct 16, 2025 Essay

Topics:

• Culture
• Faith
• Imagination

Christian Blues Traveller

On music, fundamentalism, and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners.”

Oct 16, 2025 Essay

Topics:

• Children
• Culture
• Relationship

Kids These Days

On becoming a middle-aged grump (or not).

Oct 9, 2025 Essay

Topics:

• Church
• Cultural Renewal
• Faith

Revival Among the Techies

Is the Spirit on the move in Silicon Valley?

Sep 11, 2025 Essay

Topics:

• Justice
• Policy
• Remembering

What It Means to Never Forget

Twenty-four years after 9/11, some survivors are still fighting.

Sep 11, 2025 Essay In Search of Holy Dissidence

Topics:

• Civil Discourse
• Community
• Public Life

The Search for a Durable Identity

Our (continued) need for roots.

Sep 11, 2025 Essay In Search of Holy Dissidence

Topics:

• Civil Discourse
• Cultural Renewal
• Public Life

A Virtue Divided

Shame, defiance, and the meaning of courage.

Sep 11, 2025 Essay In Search of Holy Dissidence

Topics:

• Civil Discourse
• Public Life
• Public Theology

The Table of Dissent

Julian of Norwich, James Baldwin, and Robert Farrar Capon walk into a bar…

Sep 11, 2025 Essay In Search of Holy Dissidence

Topics:

• Community
• Cultural Renewal
• Faith

A Populism of Solidarity

Journeying to the Rural Revival festival.

Sep 11, 2025 Essay In Search of Holy Dissidence

Topics:

• Cultural Renewal
• Environment
• Public Theology

Negotiating the Invisible

“Kyoto” and the art of beholding.