Faith, Fiction, Friends

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

Fifty years ago, my wife and I were living in Houston when the  Bicentennial celebration  occurred. The memories that lasted are the tall sh...

We learned this back in elementary school. If one poet’s name sits atop the poetry of the American Revolution, that name is  Philip Freneau ...

I was on a multi-day business trip to Washington, D.C. I had a free afternoon, so I walked from the hotel to the National Gallery on the Mal...

A Chinese state photographer took the pictures. The film rolls were locked in a metal box. Somehow, the rolls made their way to the United S...

Today, the city of Ephesus may be mostly ruins investigated by archaeologists and tourists. But at one time, it was the chief city of what w...

A Realist Outline of History  – Joseph Woodard at The Imaginative Conservative.  Why Read? Reading, print culture & liberal democracy  –...

I was sitting in a graduate seminar called “The Nature of Story.” About 20 of us, all in a Master of Liberal Arts program, sat at tables gat...

When I was writing my historical novel  Brookhaven , I initially relied upon two main sources – the records of births and deaths in the old ...

We know of several U.S. presidents who read poetry, but one in particular is known for his love of verse. And it won’t be a big surprise, gi...

When I read  Evangeline   by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in high school, I had no idea that I was not only reading one of his epic poems; I w...

Born in 1940 in what was then the  British Mandate  and what would become the state of Israel, Avi Lanir enjoyed only a short life. He died ...