“Mattering” That Matters
Do you ever wonder if you’ve made, or will make, your mark in this world? Whether anyone will notice your passing? Whether you will be completely forgotten in one or ...
Is It That We Just Don’t Care?
On my daily bike rides around the “foothills” of our little community in Colorado, I get several long-distance looks at downtown Denver. At least half the time, it, and much ...
Faith Makes Suffering Surmountable
Esau McCaulley, an associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College – a Christian school in Wheaton, IL. – is also a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times. ...
We Don’t Talk about Bruno
My four-year-old grandson, Leo, is crazy about the Disney movie, Encanto. It’s a musical about a family in Colombia whose on-and-off magical powers are not always helpful. Leo’s fascination doesn’t ...
More Than Tolerance Required
Luke Olliff, a 30-year-old resident of Atlanta, says he and his wife gradually shed their religious affiliations throughout their marriage. “My family thinks she convinced me to stop going to ...
Are We Born Blind?
One of my favorite Simon and Garfunkel songs, “The Boxer,” was released in 1969. The last lines of the first verse go like this: Still a man hears what he ...