"What are you giving up for Lent?" This question tells us a lot about American Christianity. While the question alludes to histo...

Taylor Swift's 1989  is often the soundtrack for my morning run. Its pop energy is just what my middle-aged body needs to keep pace. A...

In the early reconnaissance stages of a new book on St. Augustine, I've been reading his Expositions of the Psalms and came across this ...

In memory of Franz Wright. Father's Day is easy for me: I have none.  They all left. So I don't have to find an awkward card am...

As many of you know, I don't come from a small "town;" I come from a small village .  Embro, Ontario had a population of jus...

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Eduardo Echeverria has published an article-length critical review of my book, Who's Afraid of Relativism? ,  in the latest issue of the...

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This "last Friday" of summer has a feel of Fall about it: we'll head to the first high school football game tonight with sweat...

Today we moved our daughter, our third child, into her dorm room at Calvin College.  It was everything we could have hoped for, and everythi...

It's always, er, let's say, "intriguing" to read an article that purports to be a critique of your work which, in turns,...

[a few thoughts composed on my iPhone on the shore of Little Platte Lake] Someone has said that academic squabbles are so nasty only because...

O.K. Bouwsma, a graduate of Calvin College's philosophy department, was a longtime professor of philosophy at the University of Nebras...

My first "Storify" experiment: [ View the story "An Immigrant's Tour Through America's Heartland" on Storify...

[As we are patiently waiting for Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel  to wend its way to the flyover states, I thought I might share a s...