Letters to the Young

• Rainer Maria Rilke

Poem: Go to the Limits of Your Longing

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.   These are the words we dimly hear:   You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me.   Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can […]

• James K.A. Smith

Editorial: Apprenticeship by Correspondence

• Alvin Plantinga

Letter to a Young Philosopher

The New Atheists are just the tip of the iceberg: much of academia, the world of learning, and the cultural elite are hostile to Christian belief. The Christian community needs Christian philosophers to point this out, and to point out further that the alleged reasons underlying this hostility are not at all impressive—they are wholly underwhelming.

• Brian Volck

Letter to a Young Doctor

Patients suffer and seek out healers for relief—for mind at least as much as for pain. What could be more Christ-like than to show someone the way out of suffering?

• Diane Stronks

Letter to a Young High School Teacher

First and foremost, students need hospitable teachers who love their students, love learning, and love sharing their knowledge.

• Charlie Peacock

Letter to a Young Musician

Your songs and performances will tell stories, as will your life. Make sure both of them are true and winsome.

• Darrel Reid

Letter to a Young Political Staffer

It is essential that you actually believe something. I have been surprised to discover how many people getting into politics arrive there because of circumstance and adopt the views of others uncritically.

• David Greusel

Letter to a Young Architect

Architects are about imagining the future and helping to bring it into existence. What could be a more optimistic, engaging, and thrilling kind of work?