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July 2014

July 04, 2014

Our Independence Day

The neighborhood where I grew up traditionally hosts its Fourth of July festivities on the...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

A New Meaning of Freedom

Marie was a young woman who struggled with her weight, starting from a young age....

June 25, 2014

Kim Kierkegaardashian and the Culture of Nothingness

“Rise & grind! Busy day!! Gym then packing 4 Paris again! This is the despair...

June 08, 2014

Sherwood Anderson and the Platonic Touch

A couple of weeks ago, Leah Libresco wrote an excellent article suggesting that our society’s...

June 03, 2014

The Human Mystique

This fall, more than 200 Christian women met at the American Bible Society in...

June 02, 2014

Bulletins from a Second-Order Society

Mitt Romney was having a bad week. This, as anyone familiar with the 2012 election’s...

May 2014

May 16, 2014

What We Talk About When We Talk About Ambition

When it comes to ambition, it sometimes seems that feeding our egos means starving our...

May 15, 2014

That They May Be One

Just last week, I met up with an acquaintance with whom I had grown up...

May 13, 2014

#OnlyHuman

Editor’s Note: This article concludes a two-part series on social media, begun with...

May 05, 2014

On “Drunken” Christianity

Today, many Americans will be celebrating Cinco de Mayo, a holiday celebrated in America and...

April 2014

April 08, 2014

Omnivory and Christianity

I am a troubled omnivore. Or more precisely: I am a troubled, Christian omnivore. I...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

This Is What We Do

A few years ago, Chrysler debuted a slick commercial called “Imported from Detroit,” featuring Eminem...

March 30, 2014

Virtue in TV

“Everybody lies.” The FOX drama House sustained eight seasons of medical mysteries on this cynical...

March 26, 2014

MASH and Murder

Mansion. Apartment. Shack. House. The kids who hoped for shacks are monks by now. Back...

March 21, 2014

Social Sin: Who’s Responsible?

Is it possible to take sin seriously when all of one’s collective responsibilities are understood...

March 07, 2014

Religious Experience as an Assault on Autonomy

There's a fascinating discussion going on right now about the nature of religious experience,...

March 04, 2014

The Liberal Arts and the Call to Die

A week or two ago, I saw a friend post...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

Christian Symbolic Action

Regarding my most recent Fare Forward essay, two questions have been repeatedly asked of me....

February 25, 2014

The Shortcomings of “Love What You Do”

Evangelical Christians love to cite this widely popular quote by Martin Luther King Jr: “If...

February 18, 2014

Tikker: The Death Watch That Makes Every Second Count!

A few weeks ago, I was delighted to hear a story on the Colbert Report about Tikker, "the...

February 17, 2014

I Guess It’s Chocolate

One of the misconceptions that recent literature on religion tries to take down is...

February 16, 2014

Christian Commitment, Symbolism, and Farming

The Christians I am closest to tend to fall into one of two camps...

February 12, 2014

Jesus and the Art of Presence

A poignant article rippled through my social media sphere three weeks ago. In "The Art...

February 11, 2014

Venmo and Friendship

I'm a fan of Venmo, an app that makes it incredibly easy to send...

February 01, 2014

Fandom’s Final Tragedy

I was talking with a friend recently, and I decided that her sister’s new...

January 2014

January 20, 2014

This Town

As a recent transplant to Washington, D.C., I seemed well-placed to review This Town....

January 09, 2014

Prodigal City

The bankruptcy of Detroit is a consequence of multi-faceted social problems that defy simple...

December 2013

December 23, 2013

A Polish Christmas

Ever since immigrating to the United States from Poland in the 1980’s, my mother...

December 11, 2013

Blessed Are the Homesick: Hospitality for Mobile Millennials

The independent rootlessness of emerging adults presents potent opportunities for the practice of hospitality. Shana...

December 03, 2013

The New Privacy: How the NSA Protects Our Right to Be Isolationists

Constant surveillance by an impersonal power preserves a modern society more autonomous and...