After seeing Barack and Michelle Obama in the public eye for the last eight years, it can be difficult to think of them as anything other than the President...
Arts & Culture
No Crystal Stair: Womanist Spirituality By Diana L. Hayes (Orbis Books, 2016) Diana Hayes’ new book is a compilation of essays, prayers, and reflections...
Never Can I Write of Damascus By Theresa Kubasak and Gabe Huck (Just World Books, 2016) News from Syria over the past several years has been anything but good:...
I used to wonder when I’d finally feel grown up. I thought it would be a more cataclysmic rite of passage—like getting married, having a baby, or going to your...
Back in the fall of 2012, Justin Vernon told Minnesota Public Radio that Bon Iver was perhaps nearing its end. Vernon had been on tour for a year at that point...
Chance the Rapper wants you to know he’s blessed. It’s a theme that pervades his long-awaited third solo album, Coloring Book, which recently...
When the Disney movie Frozen was released in 2013 it didn’t take long before my daughter was singing every song from the movie. After hearing the movie’s...
Childbirth on television is not, shall we say, precisely accurate. Hollywood seems to consider a new human being’s arrival on the planet to be utterly lacking...
On March 26, 2015, the U.S. Postal Service issued a collection of stamps honoring the art of Martín Ramírez. At the time of his death, in February 1963 at...
When Time magazine and the New York Public Library compiled their lists of great children’s books, authors notorious for their Christian motifs—like J. R. R...
