CARLY ESCOTO went from Starbucks barista to bestselling pop artist faster than you can froth a latte. Escoto was one of the 15 Starbucks employees chosen to record a song on Off the Clock Vol. 1: New Music from...

In An Experiment in Criticism, C. S. Lewis argued that encounters with great litera­ture or art are capable of producing “an experience so momentous that only expe­riences of love, religion, or be...

 Mark Bauerlein is a professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, and the author of many books. In his next book, called The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Je...

Adolescents are guided by something called egocentric abstraction. They see life through the limited lenses of self-interest and protection. So they say things and do things that are actually deeper cries for...

Do the acts of the first-century believers leave you longing for the supernatural atmosphere of those amazing days? The period detailed for us in the book of Acts and in the New Testament letters was a miraculo...

I just bought Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on my cell phone. The process was so easy. No 800 num­ber to call; no waiting for someone to take my order as I lost my place in the cata­logue becaus...

My cell rang. “David Olshine?” asked a voice who identified herself as Laura. “I hear your group helps churches find youth ministry workers’ jobs?” I said yes and asked how we co...

For many teenagers (and adults) who grow up in middle- and upper-class America, grasping the concept that poverty exists in our back­yard is sometimes difficult. We glimpse what’s happening in our c...

Imagine that I could convince you that breathing was bad for you. I would let you continue to know that you had to breathe to, you know, stay alive and stuff, but I’d make you want to breathe as little as...

In urban and African-American communities, the barbershop can be a sanctuary of sorts, especially for young men. I recently went to the barbershop myself for a haircut—just a normal one, not a “doo...