As an Evangelical Opie from a little Baptist college in Arkansas, I entered the philosophy graduate program at Vanderbilt in…
John McArthur, the de facto leader of one of American Protestantism’s major contemporary wings, died on July 14, 2025, at…
America lost a music legend last week with the death of 1950s singer sensation Connie Francis at age 87. Few…
As it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to…
Once, long ago, anyone who took a college freshman English class would have encountered T.S. Eliot’s famous poem, The Waste…
Reading an obituary of Sylvester Stewart, better known as Sly Stone, strikes as surreal in 2025. Didn’t he overdose in…
Navy Capt. Richard Stratton, who survived six brutal years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, was quietly laid…
In 1981-82, my third year as a graduate student in English at Stony Brook University on Long Island, I shared…