Jubilee

I’ve been thinking about the trend toward various forms of localism (such as the locavore movement). When undertaken for reasons other than xenophobia, I think it’s a healthy trend. It...

I teach writing to college students, and about this time in the semester, they are getting really tired. Students apologize to me after class for being disconnected during our discussion, because they were up all night trying to finish assignments after four midterms and they’re exhausted. ...

Last night I was preparing for our home fellowship group meeting. It was miserably, bone-chillingly rainy, and I’d had a rough day. ...

“How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the rule of three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? how can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No. A wo...

I’m not a beer-drinking man. In fact, besides wine at a few weddings, the only alcohol I ever drank was a too-big slurp of Rum and Coke. I was five. My dad thought it would be funny to switch my Coca-Cola with his adult version while I was off playing Ms. Pacman at the bar. He got me good. ...

Marks of Academic Revival by Keith Martel is one of my favorite articles of all time. Keith, the Director of Campus Ministries at Geneva College, challenges readers to consider what it would look like if a “revival” swept through college campuses today. Too...

Leroy Barber is the President of Mission Year, a national urban initiative introducing 18- to 29-year-olds to missional and communal living in city centers for one year of their lives. Rev...