The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation and Culture

Sitting in a course at Regent College, I remember hearing the amusing story of the heated “signboard debates” between a Catholic church and a Presbyterian church located across from one another. One day, likely to comfort a mourner who had just lost...

In 1954, about a year before the Montgomery bus boycotts, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached a sermon at his church in Montgomery, Alabama on Romans 12:1–2 entitled “Transformed Nonconformist.” In it, he said this:
“Our world needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation. Dangerous passions of pride, hatred, selfishness are enthroned in our lives, and men do reverence before the false gods of nationalism...

As last century wound to a close, author and scholar Tom Shippey published J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, one of the most important works in the field of Tolkien studies. In the book, Shippey argues that Tolkien’s Middle-earth writings offer...

My doubts began in the most romantic of settings. I laid on the grass, my head on my backpack, in Champ de Mars park in Paris—the one that’s just below the Eiffel Tower. On a bright winter day, I found myself reading about the myth of Artemis. One of...