From the Archives: The Art of Baseball
“Baseball unites heaven and earth: it inscribes a pattern of clean lines, orbs,
and diamonds upon the dust from which we were formed and in which we toil, and
the lush green in
Carolyn Givens
Carolyn Clare Givens works in Communications at <a href="http://www.churchatcharlotte.org/">Church at Charlotte in North Carolina</a> and does freelance writing and editing. A displaced Northerner now
The Bible Quiz Subculture
When my parents moved back to the States after living overseas as missionaries,
they made a deliberate decision to put my sisters and me in public schools. As
full-time Christian workers who came
The Ice Bucket Challenge
I remember standing in line at the drugstore with my mom one time when I was in
high school. They were having one of those fundraisers where you give a dollar,
and you
Listening Walls
I watched it on a small TV at a friend’s house in rural Alaska. Outside my
window scruffy spruce trees and rugged mountains overlooked a cool June day; on
the television, a
Our Beautiful Common Humanity
Ibiyinka Alao [http://www.ibiyinka.com/] is an Arts Ambassador to the United
Nations from Nigeria. Trained in architecture at the University Of Ile-Ife
Nigeria, he is also a painter and became the