Matt Kaufman

We’ll stay in touch. We mean it when we say it to our friends, as we move away, or they move away. Only we don’t — not that much, not for that long. We have lives where we are and they have lives where they are. Every day brings things that need to be …

First, hear C.S. Lewis on his Chronicles of Narnia books. “The Whole Narnian story is about Christ,” he wrote. Aslan the lion “is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question: ‘What might Christ become like if there really were a world like …

Every time I see a story about alcohol-related problems, it feels somewhat alien to me. I’ve never been drunk. Nobody in my family has a drinking problem, and to my knowledge, none of my friends do (though some of them have had bad experiences with oth …

American Atheists, founded nearly half a century ago by Madalyn Murray O’Hair, is still around, and this year, they’re sending out a Christmas card, of sorts. More precisely, they’ve put up a Christmas billboard, prominently placed in North Bergen, N.J …

Nearly four in 10 Americans (39 percent) think marriage is becoming “obsolete.” So says a Time/Pew Research Center poll released last week, and that’s the part of the poll that’s grabbing the headlines. In reality, there’s more to the poll than that, a …

In a column nominating retired NFL quarterback Kurt Warner for Sportsman of the Year, Peter King of Sports Illustrated takes up Warner’s recent appearance on Dancing with the Stars (HT: Getreligion): It was an interesting personal choice. Warner is a d …

At my church we recently celebrated All Saints Day, understanding “saints” not as extraordinary Christians but as all who are in Christ, in this world and the next. Among the hymns was one especially lovely I’d rarely heard, “We Sing for All the Unsung …

Jenny (not her real name) is a 31-year-old nursing student in Grand Rapids, and she’s got bills to pay. So she posted an ad on her church bulletin board for a Christian roommate to share her house. Makes perfect sense, right? The next part doesn’t. Som …