As a baseball fan, I’ve been eagerly anticipating Opening Day, which happens to land on Easter. I’d like to link the two events in another way, by considering what we can learn about faith and reason from a recent debate in the heady world of baseball statistics. Last year’s race…  [more]

A few weeks ago I was having a pizza in Times Square with a native New Yorker. When we finished he asked that the leftovers be boxed so we could “give them to a homeless guy.” Within a few minutes of leaving the restaurant we had encountered a homeless man…  [more]

Even if you’re not a sports fan, you have probably heard that Florida Gulf Coast University is in the midst of an unprecedented run in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. They are the first 15-seed team in history to make it as far as the Sweet Sixteen, where they will…  [more]

This is the final installment in Advent All Around, a Think Christian series that sees reflections of Advent in the culture at large. Funeral procession after funeral procession wends its way through the streets of Newtown, Conn. Hopes are dashed. Joy turns to mourning. Small caskets lie in state holding…  [more]

In a memoir essay which accompanied his first collection of Christmas music, Sufjan Stevens recalled how, after years of hating the December holiday, he came to love it while making pancakes. A spatula left on the stove began to burn, resulting in a smell that reminded Stevens of burnt tube…  [more]