The provocation we receive from today’s reading is not an indictment but an invitation. We are forgetful simply because we are human. I believe this image of God’s grieved heart offers us a chance to ...

Since last week’s newsletter offered a favorite argument for the existence of God, it’s only fair to balance the scales by ...

Psalm 139 is a great place to put God's love in perspective. Verses 13-16 are often used to prove from God’s Word that life ...

Homer and Odysseus live in a world where there is no one morality common to all people. Odysseus is never condemned for being such a liar, because he is a hero, an aristocrat and a king, therefore the ...

I saw a mountain moved into a valley. Sure as shootin’ I watched it happen. Highway 321 was being widened up from Lenoir, and previously the ...

I was delighted recently to discover that three of my favorite authors, all from extremely different backgrounds and ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

SN Balagangadhara, a professor at Ghent University, said that by accepting ‘religion’ as something that we must willy-nilly ...

Frances Cole Lee, an accomplished poet who went to Haverhill High School and later wrote hundreds of poems and, takes her ...

Passing over 14 centuries of religious intolerance and persecution, as Vice President JD Vance did in a recent speech, in ...

My mind doesn’t work like everyone else’s. That’s no surprise to those of you who know me. I won’t go so far as to say my mind is twisted, but I see things a little ...