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 ...

How to Love “Church”

I love to fish, but I don’t go as often as I’d like. In fact, when we lived in Iowa I hardly ever went, mostly because in the area where ...

Is Wrong the New Right?

Bryce Miller, who formally worked at the newspaper where I was employed, is now a sportswriter for the San Diego Union Tribune. His very active life was recently interrupted by ...