It’s a well-known fact that historians generally don’t like historical fiction. Movies set in past periods of history, “based on real events” or not, generally put our teeth on edge. Such fictions are ordinarily filled with ridiculous anachronisms. The anachronisms are most obvious when mushy modern phrases from our therapeutic culture—urging us to share our feelings or hoping we are...

　　For much of the twentieth century, films about faith were either earnest epics such as The Greatest Story Ever Told and The Robe or syrupy depictions of self-effacing clergy as in The Bells of St. Mary’s and Boys Town. The end of the old production code in the late ’60s provided new opportunities not only for more challenging depictions of...

　　God is Worthy of Devotion 　　Weekly Overview: 　　It’s vital to the Christian life that we as sons and daughters of the most high God allow our affections to be stirred by the loving, powerful nature of our heavenly Father. Too often we feel that God is distant or separated from us. Too often we allow misconceptions or lies to place...

　　After months of delay and a legal dispute, the first episode of The Chosen, Season Four, will drop on the shows app at 7 p.m. Eastern on Sunday. 　　The wait is finally over. The response from those whove seen Season 4 in theaters was that this is our best season, so I cant wait to deliver these episodes free and...

　　Several years ago, my wife and I moved to an old stone farmhouse in a rural part of Frederick County, Maryland. In all the time we spent restoring the house and cultivating the land, however, we did not think much about the house’s history. In fact, for a long time we had naively assumed—and erroneously told people—that the house was...

　　The runaway entitlements of today’s transfer state reflect some of the inherent flaws in democracy. Liberal democracy has succeeded in protecting minorities by constitutionalizing rights. But it is much harder to prevent current majorities from harming future ones, endangering the liberty and security of all. 　　Democracy’s critics have always worried that the numerous poor would take from the rich, impoverishing...

　　Sam Butcher sometimes struggled to explain why Precious Moments figurines, his signature artistic creation, became such a cultural phenomenon. Half a million people joined special collectors clubs to get them. The manufacturer released 25 to 40 new ones every year. And Butcher, an art school dropout, earned tens of millions of dollars in annual royalties. 　　Im still trying to figure...

　　Words matter. George Eliot may have commented that correct English is the slang of prigs.But there is a reason—good reason—that we employ certain words and not others, and a reason that we demand accuracy from our students, our lawyers, and our thinkers. Lazy use of big words adds to smug self-righteousness and it is not helpful when talking about serious...

　　Early in my former career as a faculty member, I was teaching at a large public university and cultivated a reputation as a professor who actually knew his students’ names. I couldn’t help but notice, then, when a promising young African American woman who was doing very well in the course stopped attending or submitting assignments. Concerned, I e-mailed her...

　　How to Use a Personal Journal for Spiritual Growth 　　by Brad Hambrick 　　“Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.” - Lamentations 3:40 　　How do we do actually set time aside to do the work that Lamentations 3:40 asks of us? How do we examine our ways and test them? One great way...

　　Our $35 trillion national debt costs us 2.3 percent of our GDP to service, and that will rise to 7.2 percent of GDP by 2053, according to the Peterson Institute, levels we associate with Third World nations skirting national bankruptcy. The implications for national security are dire. We know that America’s military power is declining. But nothing on the political...

　　The summer of 2020, when George Floyd’s murder inspired America’s “racial reckoning,” seems a distant memory. Although talk of a right-wing backlash is often overstated, we have witnessed some effective pushback against left-wing identity politics from the right. “Wokeness,” as it is sometimes called, is not defeated, but it has faced meaningful headwinds in recent years. At times, this has...