Blowing in the wind
From the Senate in the 1970s to the presidential campaign trail in 2020, Joe Biden has a long record of going where political pressures push him—and right now they’re pushing him aggressively leftward
March madness
The once-full bracket of Democratic presidential candidates narrows to a pair of contenders and a question about what makes a moderate
Abduction
Someone kidnapped Pastor Raymond Koh three years ago. His family still wants answers but is trusting God
A disease like no other
Antibiotics stop symptoms, but a cure for leprosy’s long-standing stigma remains out of reach
COVID-19 calling
As the deadly disease hit the United States, Christians began praying, planning, and caring for their communities
Voices
Mindy Belz
“Putting a Band-Aid on a jugular vein”
Iran’s rapidly expanding coronavirus outbreak threatens not only Iranians but also a uniquely vulnerable population—the Middle East’s millions of refugees. ...
The Editors
Mailbag
Troubling Trend ...
Andrée Seu Peterson
The forgetful life
President Coolidge was a silent type. When it was announced that he had died, New York writer Dorothy Parker quipped, “How can they tell?” ...
Janie B. Cheaney
A plea for beautiful buildings
Most of us don’t think about architecture unless it slaps us in the face. That may say more about bland, blocky public buildings than we’d like to admit, but several years ago I was slapped by the...
Joel Belz
No split decisions
Are you a fiscal or a social conservative? ...
Marvin Olasky
Be a good neighbor
As the apostle Paul wrote, we see through a glass darkly. J.I. Packer and others have noted that we don’t know what discussions in heaven are like, so I certainly am not saying the following dialogue...
Notebook
Religion
Questioning the survey
The research organization Barna Group reported in February that two-thirds of American adults who attend church “do so largely because of personal enjoyment.” That claim may not be sensational, but it...
Lifestyle
Family before farm
12th in a series on long marriages ...
Media
Inmates for the press
Inside an office room in Bayport, three men in jeans and casual shirts swivel on rolling orange chairs, conferring with each other, answering questions, and occasionally turning back toward large...
Culture
Music
Promising signs
Changes by Justin Bieber: This musically slight, blue-eyed R&B will be of primary interest to those who care about Justin Bieber—his ups, his downs, his marriage, his faith. To this end, the...
Music
Rising to the occasion
New releases by the jazz double bassist Adam Booker, the late organist McNeil Robinson, and the Moscow Synodal Choir and Russian National Orchestra mark the arrival of what’s shaping up to be an...
Documentary
Stealing McMillions
A Happy Meal it’s not: The recent six-part HBO docuseries McMillions serves up the convoluted, unsavory, but engrossing story of the Monopoly game scam of the 1990s that duped America’s largest fast...
Movies & TV
Dramatic potential
Beer, parades, the wearing o’ the green. After Nicholas, no one commonly called a saint has had more celebration and legend grow up around him than “Ireland’s apostle,” Patrick. Yet unlike jolly old...
Books
Stories of survival
And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain by Elisabeth Asbrink: A stash of 500 letters between members of an Austrian Jewish family survived World War II. Asbrink uses them to tell the Ullmann story...
Children's Books
Resurrection reads
He Is Risen: Rocks Tell the Story of Easter by Patti Rokus: Though the format of this picture book may be surprising at first, Rokus’ simple language and elegant rock designs tell the story of Christ...
Books
Answers to hard problems
On this page I mostly review secular books, but here in eight categories are worthwhile ones I’ve read recently from Christian publishers. ...
Q&A
On the Augustinian road
Calvin College professor James K.A. Smith, 49, grew up in Canada and recently became a U.S. citizen. He is the author of numerous books, including You Are What You Love, Awaiting the King, and (in...
Documentary
Preventive care
The day you read this, approximately 125 Americans will die of an opioid overdose. One in 5 teenage deaths in 2016 in the United States was related to opioid addiction. Netflix’s new documentary, The...
Dispatches
Quick Takes
Quick Takes
Horsing around ...
Quotables
Quotables
“I haven’t touched my face in weeks. I miss it.” President Donald Trump on changes he’s making during the coronavirus outbreak. ...
Human Race
Lawsuit says clinic rushed teenager into life-changing transgender treatments
Regretted ...
News
Federal revenues up, federal spending up, federal debt up
106% ...