Life as an Experience in Contrast
Vivid moments of contrast can provide richness and fresh insight. That doesn’t mean they’re all meaningful or enjoyable, though.
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Why Is It “Big News” That Believers Are Motivated by Love?
What is it about the idea that religious communities are motivated by love that is so surprising as to constitute front page news?
So, Are You For Women . . . Or Not?
When we reduce complex conversations to simple for-or-against-us battles, we perpetuate the conditions that make creative and peaceful resolutions unlikely.
Can the Supreme Court Bring Us Together, Rather than Drive Us Apart? Part 2
If we’re only feeling angrily estranged by the Supreme Court, maybe we’re missing something important. These stories might leave you strangely hopeful.
Honor the Pilgrims by Cultivating Tolerance
Let’s make the Pilgrims proud by shedding any tendency towards intolerance across social, political, and religious differences.
The Sanctity of Suffering
Suffering is everywhere. And yet, by the way we sometimes talk, you’d think it’s a rarity. Or at least better to avoid in polite company.
Searching for God (Instead of Ideas about Him)
A review of Who Is Truth: Reframing Our Questions for a Richer Faith by Jeffrey Thayne and Edwin Gantt.
The Indoctrination Nobody Talks About
Our worldview shapes everything we see. Yet what shapes our worldview is often hardly noticed—including secular messaging deeply corrosive to faith.
Feminists should ask tough questions about ERA
It may seem easy for a Feminist to support the new push to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, but there are urgent questions we must answer.