Tag: Opinion pieces

David Foster Wallace’s talk has gone viral and we thought it would be an appropriate reflection during this graduation season and the 49th Day of Easter.

T.H. Luhrmann describes meeting people who had an auditory experience of God. Were they crazy or more intensely prayerful? She speculates that prayer both guides and disciplines the imagination.

How believers and skeptics talk past each other and how they might learn to connect instead.

David Brooks reflects on what makes movements vital and what makes movements die. One sign of death: closing ranks in a search for purity.

Michael Robbins, the author of Alien vs. Predator, looks at popular theories of unbelief.

Editorial cartoonist Robert Ariail of the Camden (SC) Chronicle Independent penned a pointed and potentially explosive cartoon about the split between the former Episcopalians in SC and the Episcopal Church. He talks about why.

Chaplain Norris Burkes writes about how God handed him and a visiting pastor a teachable moment.

Derek Penwell says that the question that should be keeping Christians up at night is “So what?”

For those who follow Jesus—actually taking his words to heart and do what he said—only one response seems possible. And it’s not gun control. It’s gun elimination.