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I don't know anything about North Carolina Congressman Robert Pittenger, but I salute him for lowering the boom on the rank hypocrisy an...

Thomas Merton has been a source of great comfort and inspiration throughout the past few angry and blood-soaked months, angry and blood-s...

Ross Douthat  speculates on whether history is repeating itself and we are entering a period of American history not unlike the late 60s/ear...

For your consideration, two exceptional essays from young writers worth reading. First,  Matthew Sitman  tells the story of leaving the co...

[...] In many ways, the Lexus and the olive tree were the symbols of the post-cold war world. Some countries were emerging from the cold wa...

Among the many analyses and diatribes I've read on this unprecedented, surreal, crazy (insert your own adjective) election season this e...

The collapse of families and communities -- so far, more or less disguisable as "mobility" or "growth" or "prog...

Be warned. Watching Waiting for "Superman" is a pretty depressing experience. It left me discouraged about the future of our coun...

It's been years since I read A Scanner Darkly by the brilliant sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), but something about recent h...

The received wisdom of the day is that one is (or should be) defined by who they are sexually attracted to. If you're attracted to membe...

After the gut-wrenching 2-2 World Cup match between the USA and Portugal a couple weeks back a friend posted on Facebook: " Soccer is t...

  In spite of the hype, the corruption, and the sometimes malevolent behavior of its fans, soccer remains the beautiful game and the ...

The leadership of my church spends a lot of time strategizing about how to reach Millennials (the generation born between 1980 and 2000). Th...

I just finished reading Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work (Dutton, 2012) by Tim Keller and co-author Katherine ...

A while back I posted some thoughts on one of the most compelling books I've ever read: The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert by ...

"President Obama issued a statement today to mark the forty-first anniversary of Roe v. Wade . A mere paragraph long, it contains enoug...

Here's a sampling of the headlines from my local newspaper this morning. TWO CARS EXCHANGE GUNFIRE IN BELLE GLADE NEAR SCHOOL TH...

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Monday night while the rest of America was watching a thrilling BCS championship game I was up til the wee hours of the morning sufferin...

Are you optimistic or pessimistic going into 2014? Is the glass half-full or half-empty? Earlier today I posed this question to the lady tha...