Most of us half-believe that God needs our worship. We rarely say it explicitly, but it shows in how we talk. From the pulpit, in the middle of a worship set, or in our own prayers, we often say that God "wants" our praise. It sounds devout, and we usually mean something right by it, as the Father does seek true worshipers [...]

Early voting has already begun here in Texas, where I live. On November 3, Americans will return to the ballot box for the midterm elections. For some of us, this is an energizing time. We love doing our part to participate in our republic and choose our leaders. For others, it is the most unpleasant experience [...]

Since the 2007 release of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, the Christian intellectual sphere has reverberated with talk of disenchantment, a historical process that helped create the modern world. According to Taylor, the old enchanted realm was “the world of spirits, demons, moral forces which our predecessors [...]

In a humorous moment in the movie Fiddler on the Roof, the main character, Tevye, looks into the camera and remarks, “You may ask, how did this tradition get started? I’ll tell you—I don’t know! But it’s a tradition.” This sets the scene for the movie’s story of Tevye adapting to the changing world around him [...]