Visions of hope amid pandemic
The coronavirus challenged compassion-providing ministries in new ways
Both sides, now
After George Floyd’s death, we shouldn’t ignore protesters’ cries or looters’ destruction
The road to reopening
Businesses around the U.S. are reopening after the coronavirus pandemic, but different places face different challenges
Biden’s summer bet
Picking a potential vice president is a critical moment in Joe Biden’s presidential campaign—and it’s now more complex than he anticipated
Brutal and brazen
A local terror group’s increasing attacks in Mozambique are raising concern of a new Islamist force in southern Africa
Voices
Joel Belz
A page of history
It’s pretty tough, some wise sage has observed, to overestimate the power of the printed page. ...
Marvin Olasky
Spilled blood
Many of us are familiar with the Jerusalem event of A.D. 30 or 33 that is the turning point in all human history and our own salvation. Fewer of us know of the Jerusalem disaster of A.D. 70 that...
Andrée Seu Peterson
Walking stick
My father finds it amusing that I keep a collection of walking sticks hidden behind a tree stump near the wrought iron gate to the wooded cemetery where we walk each day. You don’t need it, he is...
Mindy Belz
Earth on our heads
Nehemiah on the 24th day of the month gathered the people of Israel “with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads.” Eight Levites—each of them named twice in the space of two verses ...
The Editors
Mailbag
No path to normalcy ...
Janie B. Cheaney
Local failure, national tragedy
On the night of May 28, while the city of Minneapolis was on fire, Dawn Frederick noticed that looters had broken into a gas station on her block. Understandably, she called the police. Unfortunately,...
Notebook
Medicine
A doctor goes to New York
On April 23, Ben Daxon, a critical care physician, donned scrubs and a scuba mask. Fitted with a 3D-printed adapter for a viral filter, the mask was “heavy, tight, suffocating,” he says. But it was...
Science
Canines against disease
Man’s best friend, coronavirus’s worst enemy? Dogs have long proven themselves adept at helping the blind and comforting the downcast, but now medically trained service dogs are helping in ways you...
Religion
Anglicans and a Supreme Court victory in North Texas
Doctrinally conservative Episcopalians have rebranded as “Anglicans” in many parts of the United States, but some are still holding on to the name “Episcopal”—and not just as a matter of branding. In...
Culture
Children's Books
History-makers
Monument Maker by Linda Booth Sweeney: This extended picture book profiles American sculptor Daniel Chester French and tells the story of the Lincoln Memorial’s construction. From the time he was a...
Books
Deception, mystery, and romance
If I Were You by Lynn Austin: Audrey and Eve become fast friends as children on an estate near London. They grow up and grow apart until the onset of World War II rekindles their friendship. Audrey...
Books
A destructive addiction
As more businesses are opening up this month, Christians, sadly, need to pay attention to one industry that never closed and may even have expanded this year. The Economist last month headlined one...
Movies & TV
Is that your final answer?
In 2001, we had the internet. But the search for online information remained slow and cumbersome, making it a still-ripe environment for the trivia-based game show Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? ...
Documentary
No safe harbor
Greenland seems a world away, but its people’s miseries reinforce Solomon’s lament that “there’s nothing new under the sun.” Anywhere. ...
Movies & TV
Stargirl: Superhero or super-stereotypes?
On the surface, the CW’s hit new comic book adaptation Stargirl is standard superhero fare. ...
Movies & TV
Grant: A man for our times
It’s heartening to watch the progression: A white man working the fields alongside black slaves, then freeing a slave from his in-laws, saying, “God protect you, Wilbur.” The same man commands...
Movies & TV
An Inspector Calls: False innocence
In 1912, the Birling family of England seems to have it all. In their beautiful home, with servants rushing during a lavish dinner, Arthur and Sybil Birling celebrate daughter Sheila’s engagement to...
Movies & TV
Monk and House: A tale of two series
Looking for a break from wondering what the world will be like when the lockdown ends? Two multiple-award-winning TV series from the dawn of this millennium might give you the diversion you need. ...
Music
Lonely pilgrimages
Love in the Midst of Mayhem by Joe Ely: Ely has said that he recorded this album to avoid “going completely batty” once the coronavirus lockdown hit Texas. And he didn’t waste time, releasing the...
Music
Dion and friends
“I feel like I have a good new friend.” ...
Q&A
Challenging assumptions
Amity Shlaes graduated from Yale, became a journalist, and is now a Forbes columnist and the author of five books, including The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression and her latest,...
