As a cultural analyst, I rarely find myself praising contemporary film or television. That is not because good storytelling is impossible today, but because it is increasingly rare. Which is why Taylor Sheridan’s new series The Madison deserves attention....

David captured a thousand of his chariots, seven thousand charioteers and twenty thousand foot soldiers. He hamstrings all but a hundred of the chariot horses. (2 Sam. 8:4) King David won a decisive victory in the Valley of Salt. The armies of Hadadezer lay defeated,...

We are living through a leadership crisis, but not for the reasons most commentators suggest. The problem is not simply political polarization, institutional distrust, technological disruption, or economic uncertainty—though all are real. The deeper problem is that we...

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.” (2 Samuel 14:14) I always imagined the death of my father being...

After three months we put out to sea in a ship that had wintered in the island—it was an Alexandrian ship with the figurehead of the twin gods Castor and Pollux. (Acts 28:11) As Paul boards a ship for his final voyage—shipwrecked, haggard, and snakebite—Luke...

Have you ever been telling your family the straight truth only to realize they don’t care what you think? A father rendered mute in his own home. Me neither. But in case you have… Storming the Castle I recently looked at a quirky little corner of social psychology...