Tape on the pews: As we return, let’s not repeat a failed restoration
OKLAHOMA CITY — There’s tape on the pews. It’s blue and green, and it tells us where to sit. Blue rows only. We usually end up…
Insight
This year we need all the puppet shows and Bible bowls we can get
The first time I walked into the lobby of the Wyndham Anatole in Dallas I was overwhelmed — in the best possible way. Hundreds —…
As we enter a strange new year, we are a huddled mass, yearning to breathe free
My favorite Christmas Eve memory began on the frayed, dark blue carpet of the Chicago O’Hare International Airport in 2011. We were on our way…
Fair-well to Deon: Chronicle’s board chair never forgot his native Africa
‘My boss is from Africa, y’know.” I’m going to miss saying that, especially to our African brothers and sisters. They’ve often reacted with disbelief…
Election Day: ‘Our Daniel moment’
'This is our Daniel moment.” Willie Hubbard, who ministers for a church just miles from the U.S. Capitol, spoke those words during a Christian Chronicle…
Finding peace in ‘The Great Alone’: A phone call with Bailey McBride
Don’t worry about Bailey McBride. “I bought five books yesterday,” he told me, “so I’m good through March.” I called Bailey, editor emeritus of…
Remembering a quiet man, a go-getter and two legacies of love for Africa
They were about as different as two evangelists could be — Isaya Jackson and Isaac Adotey. I met them in Juba, the small, dusty…
The pandemic’s terrible, terrible blessing: a longing for Christ’s triumphant return
Remember when the world was ending back in 2005? Yeah, me neither. But evidently it was a thing. I wrote about it. The day…
Who needs a cathedral?
‘Why learn a living language when you can study a dead one?” That must have been what I told myself in high school because somehow…
Hope in an unlikely place: Israel’s ‘Hotel Corona’
Protests. Pandemic. Injustice. Enraged. Outraged. Just ... rage. And masks. In 2020, the last place I expected to find any kind of model for “how…
