Factionalism and division, partisanship and parties. Sides. Teams. Colors. The conflict reverberating in those words harkens back, like many of the darker expressions of our humanity, to the Roman Empire—and the racetrack. Horse racing was an integral part of Roman culture... Read More →

  I recently read Carmen Joy Imes’s Bearing God’s Name, an accessible, albeit somewhat academic meditation on the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai. This is just my sort of thing, both meditative and intellectual, biblical and gentle. During the course of the book, Imes... Read More →