A World Remade
July 16, 2020
The Stories We Tell
April 19, 2020
Discerning history in all its multitudes.
Continue Reading…The Great Reset
March 19, 2020
Making way for a world remade.
Continue Reading…The Tribes that Bind
January 8, 2020
Wrestling with loyalty in a fractured age.
Continue Reading…The Magnanimous Man: Remembering Michael Cromartie
September 7, 2017
Michael Cromartie created something—a web of people with a distinctive light infusing their work and relationships—that will persist long after his death.
A Bachelor’s Degree in Gospel Music
March 3, 2016
Nyack College in New York City is pioneering a degree in gospel music performance, the first of its kind.
Grace in the Dark
April 7, 2015
One woman’s love — through her living and dying — shines a light on grace where few expect to find it.
The Anonymous Society
March 24, 2015
An observation at how much our online behavior has evolved in one decade leads to questions about virtual community.
Entering the Age of Networks
March 5, 2015
Institutions are out, networks are in. What are the consequences, the perils and the promise?
As in Death, So in Life
February 11, 2015
An innovation in the funeral business lends pause, its stylization around death missing something profound.
Canaries in the Cultural Coal Mine
June 30, 2014
The most important cultural trends today are being driven by unmarried twenty- and thirty-somethings, not by those already hitched and starting families. Continue Reading…
The Song Beneath the Sidewalks
April 21, 2014