Although early twenty-five percent of U.S. children suffer from depression, fewer than twenty percent of emotionally troubled children in this country receive help. Yet the vast majority of parents, if asked, would likely say that what... Read More
As we do at the very beginning of every year, this week we’re offering you an assemblage of favorite questions and responses from the previous year’s fifty-plus interviews between reviewers and authors. Please give this an attentive... Read More
Behind bars: might as well mean left behind, given up on, out of sight-out of mind. In effect, our criminal justice system routinely throws away the key—to helping prisoners rejoin society, support themselves and their families, pursue... Read More
Do you know what happens when you put an eyes-wide-open pastor and a top religious scholar together to talk about the current state of religious identity, in light of how American politics has become so polarized? Fascinating... Read More
An image from The Squickerwonkers by Evangeline Lilly, illustrated by Johnny Fraser-Allen. From China to Zimbabwe, from Lebanon to Japan, from Istanbul to Greece—even from one pole to the other—these sixteen children’s books stretch... Read More
John D. Rigazio may be the most frustrated politician in the U.S. today for good reason. His bald statements make him look like a right-wing or maybe left-wing nut—but after qualifying these statements with five or six points he comes... Read More
A resident of multiethnic communities for most of his life and now an employee with a major multiethnic corporation, Firman Brown has spent twenty years pursuing multidisciplinary studies in history, geography, sociology, and economics... Read More
Over the months of FTW Thursdays, we’ve talked many times about the declining numbers of white evangelical Christians in the USA—from 23 percent of the population in 2006 to 13.9 percent in 2022—but we really haven’t heard a good... Read More