In my first post in this series, I described my current adult course on Christian nationalism and quoted at length from the introduction to my In God We Trust: Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? In the first two weeks of the class, we...
Where was Mary Magdalene from? According to early Christian tradition, the famous disciple of Jesus was from a town called Magdala, hence her name, Mary of Magdala. However, a place known as Magdala is never explicitly associated with...
As Democrats gained control of both chambers of Congress, voters in Virginia and Nevada approved constitutional amendments enshrining the right to abortion. Missouri voters, meanwhile, rejected an effort to restore legal protections for...
Some of the best advice my late father gave to me was when I was trying to teach my daughter how to read. I was frustrated because she wasn’t picking it up very quickly. She was in kindergarten at the time, and being the product of public school...
Okay, so I was looking at my high school yearbook the other day. Don’t judge me. It’s something that people who grew up in small towns do on a regular basis when they see something on Facebook about someone roughly their age who is being...
