Franklin Graham recently reminded us of something I’ve always admired about Charlie Kirk: he stood firmly on biblical truth, but he did it with compassion. He debated boldly, yet never with malice. He ...

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” — John Keats (Ode on a Grecian Urn) John Keats’ pithy praise of beauty is both beautiful and elusive. It ...

Passover is our holiday of freedom. Our tradition provides a wonderful insight on the nature of freedom through a play on words. We find this wordplay in the Talmud, based on Exodus 31:16. That verse ...

There’s a great line in the film The Big Short, “Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry.” After the film, thinking about why poetry so gets so little love and so much hate I googled ...

• Can you find beauty in this image/story? • Can you find truth in this image/story? • How might beauty reveal truth? • How might beauty conceal truth? Purpose: What kind of thinking does this routine ...