The Gospel According to Jack Chick

The evangelical tracts I read as a child cultivated more fear and suspicion than love. But Christ still formed something beautiful. By Tulio Huggins

Coming in from the Cold

How two atheist philosophers led me to grace, and back to the home I’d never left. By Alexander Pyles

Prodigal Poems

In the face of uncertainty, poetry freely offered brought gifts far beyond professional recognition, and united loved ones and strangers across insurmountable distance. By Ralph James Savarese

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When Nostalgia Grows Up

X-Men ’97 models a more adult nostalgia when it carries on the legacy of an earlier show without giving in to despair—or looking at the past through rose-colored glasses. By Jake Casale

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King Arthur’s Youth

T.H. White’s twentieth-century contribution to the canon of King Arthur explains lifelong virtues (or vices) by the light of the lessons of childhood. By Shawn Phillip Cooper

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Classical Education in the Theoretical Weeds

With more and more parents turning to classical education, the questions multiply: what is classical education, and what is it for? By Collin Slowey

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Hope for the Anxious Generation

Digital technology has forever changed what it means to grow up. A rich Christian inheritance of religious practice offers a way out. By Will Bryant

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The Right Thing for the Wrong Reason

Steinbeck’s East of Eden shows us how today’s “crisis of meaning” discourse misses the point. By Christian Lingner

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Putting a Cap on Eternal Youth

In a world obsessed with youth and haunted by the passage of time, there's a need to challenge the cultural dread of aging, to learn to celebrate its fruits of wisdom and liberation from the relentless chase of fleeting accomplishments. By Griffin Gooch

God in the Hands of a Realist Writer

Modernism has reduced the “real” to the material, even in fiction. It’s time we reclaim the full range of reality with our written words. By David Priest