This week’s roundup is eclectic and fabulous.
Interview: Peter Bell and “Sons of Patriarchy” podcast
“When does a movement go from fringe to mainstream?” This is the question with which Peter Bell opens his new podcast, an in-depth examination of the movement Doug Wilson started, but whose tentacles extend far beyond Moscow, Idaho. I am […]
Interview: Jeff McDonald and the Presbyterian Scholars Conference
Since 2015, Jeff McDonald has been organizing the annual Presbyterian Scholars Conference. In this interview, he answers questions about this project.
Interview: Nadya Williams on her new book, Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic
What difference does the imago Dei make for how we think about mothers and children?
My latest for Christianity Today: What are parents for?
A theological response to parenting wars.
The hospitality of great books and why we need Fall Books Week
There is something wondrous about books that people have known since the earliest days of writing. Books can heal weary souls.
Blessing of Unicorns: safety, motherhood, Halloween poetry, loving one’s hometown, and a brief break
A few Unicorns for you a day or two early, because the Williamses are at a conference, so this blog will take a brief break until Monday
Daniel K. Williams at The Raised Hand: interview on what college students need to learn
Today at The Raised Hand, you can listen to Kathryn Wagner’s interview with my favorite American historian about a topic near and dear to his heart–and it is the central question for this year at The Raised Hand: what does […]
Wendell Berry writes “Against Killing Children” in The Christian Century
In the October issue of The Christian Century, Wendell Berry writes powerfully about school shootings and the destruction of children and childhood.
Blessing of Unicorns: Helene, hope, Lewis and Tolkien get graphic, faith and higher education, and conferences
Another Blessing of Unicorns upon your day—reads that made me stop, reflect, weep, or rejoice this week.
New BBC documentary: “We Will Dance Again” about Hamas attack on Supernova festival last year
As we learn more about the attacks, the atrocities appear only worse.
Interview: Michael Soffer on Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil
“I was teaching Holocaust Studies in a classroom that a former Nazi camp guard used to clean, and in a building that had rallied to his defense.”
Blessing of Unicorns: What’s in a name, Christmas in September, poetry, mom writers, the Midwest, and more!
Another week, another fabulous herd!
George Orwell on “Politics and the English Language”
Why warped political language matters.
Interview: Dixie Dillon Lane’s book, Skipping School, is under contract
A homeschooling mother, who also happens to be a historian of homeschooling, updates us on her book project and more.
Building up the evangelical mind: Asbury University Honors Program and Lewis House in Lexington, KY Â
Two relatively new institutions are doing great work for the future of the evangelical mind.
Blessing of Unicorns: books, books, books (and a little more)
In this week’s roundup of Unicorns, meet some new books, several author interviews, and some thoughts on the complexities of history.
What are Current editors looking forward to reading this fall?
Current Contributing Editors and Editors share about a few of the books they’re looking forward to reading in the coming months.
Interview: Lanta Davis on Becoming by Beholding: The Power of the Imagination in Spiritual Formation
We are what we read–and what we behold.
Roads, Dead Ends, and Endings
Canaan Road dead-ends at a cemetery