Faith, Fiction, Friends

My wife and I have joke about PBS: When all else fails, do  Downton Abbey  or some variation on the theme. Reruns, fundraisers – it seems at...

  A Return to Earnestness  – Kelly Keller at Story Warren.   Francis Scott Key and the Making of a New American Anthem  – Jason Clark at Thi...

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered beginning in 1947. A group of Bedouin shepherds discovered clay jars almost a thousand years old in des...

Wendell Berry’s Affections   – Gary Houchens at The Imaginative Conservative.   Wendell Berry (1934-2026)  – Jeffrey Bilbro at Front Porch R...

In Search of Northanger Abbey: Farleigh Hungerford Castle  – Nancy Bilyeau at English Historical Fiction Authors.  At the Zoo  – Adam Smith ...

This past Thursday was the 250 th  anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn. The army of George Washington lost the battle – and the American R...

Benjamin Franklin is rightly considered to be one of America’s founding fathers. But there was also his son, William, who had an entirely di...

Given the number of movies, plays, poems, and novels about the man, you would think that the entire planet knows King Arthur was obviously a...

My parents were both profoundly affected by the Great Depression. My father, graduating from high school, saw his hopes for college and a me...

When I had American history in both high school and college, I can vaguely remember reading or classroom discussion about only two ministers...