C.J. Burton for Newsweek
On Wednesday, we enter into Lent, a time of holy listening, a time of renunciation and sacrifice, a time of expectation, a time of spiritual connection. It should be a time of lessened interruption, a time of greater focus, but for most people, even people observing Lent, it will be just as […]
Britain offers many delights: Coca-Cola made with cane sugar, tea with milk and sugar, Cadbury chocolate, fresh British ales on tap.
And, for those who are watching their calories (and even those, like me, who clearly aren’t), a lively and living press, a covey of magazines and newspapers that are sometimes in disagreement with each other, […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty images I shared a pot of Earl Grey with a longtime friend of Bono’s at St. Pancras Station in London on Saturday. We were meeting to talk about my book on U2, which will be out in July, and about Greenbelt, the huge Christian arts festival in Britain every August, and about the new […]
We talked about the book of Job in my graduate seminar at Baylor last week, and it certainly seemed like an appropriate time. Everywhere I look people are losing their livelihoods, wrestling with foreclosure, wondering how they are going to take care of their families. It’s something that Job speaks to today, even millennia after […]
