Childhood Trauma and Later Addictions

According to an article in Scientific American magazine more than 40 percent of people with opioid addiction reported some type of childhood abuse or ...

A Man Who Invited the World Over for Dinner

In February 2020, BBC journalist Vicky Baker jumped on the Eurostar to Paris, motivated by a sudden urge to have dinner with a friend. American Jim Haynes ...

Turn Discarded Bread into Baking Hack

Shifrah Combiths, a freelance writer and mother-of-five in Tallahassee, Florida, wrote about a baking hack for the website The Kitchn that was so valuable ...

Anxiety Keeps 25% of Children Up at Night

For parents of young children, few things are as precious as a good night’s sleep—both for their child and for themselves. Yet many parents ...

‘Father, Don’t Let Me Fall’

Trinity Evangelical Divinty School professor Kevin Vanhoozer writes about caring for his aging mother in an issue of CT magazine:

For nine years now, I ...

The Death of the Dining Room

The dining room is the closest thing the American home has to an appendix—a dispensable feature that served some more important function at an earlier ...

Two Very Different Ways to Be an Evangelist

Leader, author, and evangelist Leighton Ford wrote the following as he remembered his wife, Jean Graham Ford, and her brother, Billy.

“Don’t ...

An Annual Christmas Hello to a Departed Neighbor

For Mike Witmer, it began as a neighborly holiday game. Now it has become an enduring tribute. The Witmer’s Christmas lights were already up when ...

The Five Best Toys of All Time

As Christmas approaches, too many parents will be competing to track down and purchase the latest and greatest toy that their child has set their heart ...

English Pub's 77-Year-Old Christmas Decorations

A pub has been reusing the same 77-year-old Christmas decorations in its public bar for more than 60 years. Landlord David Short, 84, first put up the ...