O Come, O Come, Emmanuel There is a particular kind of ache that Advent names. It is the ache of people who know they were made for more than the cold they are standing in. The old Latin hymn “Veni, veni, Emmanuel” has carried that ache for centuries. Its roots reach back to the ancient…
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All My Heart This Night Rejoices Paul Gerhardt (1607–1676) lived most of his life in the long shadow of the Thirty Years’ War. The conflict that began when he was eleven years old emptied villages, burned towns (including his own childhood home), and left large parts of Germany stripped of people, harvests, and ordinary hope.…
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A new episode of The Adventures of PK Boy! On a crisp November sidewalk, the cape-wearing Preacher’s Kid spots a member of the local Legion selling poppies and decides the whole thing needs correcting. As a well-intentioned, peace-nik style Christian boy, PK Boy is certain that real followers of the Prince of Peace never fight, never…
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The Sons Who Left, the Freedom They Secured, and the Greater Sacrifice That Calls Us They Left as Sons Not heroes first—sons. Boys who had been in classrooms and on farms and in machine shops only months before. They packed kits their mothers had helped fold. They stood on platforms while engines hissed and fathers…
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The Preacher’s Kid Who Corrects Your Grammar (And Eventually Learns Something) Pilot Episode: “Dude, Where’s Your Pronoun” — A Cheeky Radio Dramedy Where the Holier-Than-Thou Kid Meets Real Life Meet PK Boy (that’s “Pee-Kay Boy,” as in Preacher’s Kid). He’s the kid who grew up in the church nursery, memorized the order of service before he could…
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Why Faith Still Sees What the Culture Cannot “It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are…
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Faith That Will Not Be Silenced There is a moment, sooner or later, when the pressure arrives. It may come as a quiet warning from a superior, a sudden change in policy, a sideways look from colleagues, or the simple knowledge that speaking the name of Jesus out loud will cost you something. In that…
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