20 years after the siege
In April 1993, the FBI siege on the Branch Davidian compound ended in disaster. The event still casts a long shadow on our divided nation.
The Bible on iPad
I switched to a digital Bible for ease and versatility. But I gave something up: a sense of the sweeping history of God's engagement with God's people.
The lure of Amish fiction
Might Christian nostalgia—wrapped in a cape dress and sealed with a kiss—have an interest in the future as well as the past?
One reader to another
When you buy a used book, it's like joining a conversation in progress—a conversation that may outlast you.
Do we really want to live forever?
Desirable as living forever may sound, it invites us to forget another kind of desire that we creatures should not quench.
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