It’s a place of ice and fire, filled with mighty giants, clever dwarfs, and magical animals,

Laura Story’s fifth studio record, Open Hands, is filled with the message of hope.

Jade is a junior at an affluent, private, mostly white high school.

The Great Wall of China and California’s manmade Salton Sea are both iterations of a deeply embedded human need to build empires,

For her new album with a new label and a new producer, Alison Krauss decided to record old songs.

In 1952, 18-year-old Rachel returned to her childhood home in Kenya

When young Viv moves to a new home along the South Carolina coast, she feels disoriented

Here is a poem that I learned at an evangelical “Bible camp”

The Case for Christ is a surprising film with no surprises. 

Long after key changes, extended guitar solos, seven-minute tracks, and songs fading out were deemed taboo

The book is entitled Triangle, but it is square in shape. A coincidence?

Alice laughed. ‘‘There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.” 

In seventh grade, John* told me he liked me.

Isn't it amazing that God made every creature on earth?

Are children’s bulletins worth making?

If current trends hold, church attendance may continue to decline.

I’ve tried to get my fellow church members to get excited about evangelizing

David Hoekema and I served on the same synodical committee on War and Peace.

Stranger is about the universal and fierce love that comes with motherhood.

Music has the power to reveal human experiences that are different from our own.