By Charles C. Grimm “But she’ll make more money than you!” I couldn’t believe I was hearing these words from my parents. I had married my wife right at the very depths of the recession in 2009, after investing four years of my life teaching for a nonprofit organization in a developing country. My wife […]
By Dr. Mark Scott Valentine’s Day celebrates love. Wedding anniversaries celebrate commitment. Probably the most noteworthy wedding anniversary is the fiftieth. When couples achieve that, it is called a milestone. A milestone festival for Israel was the Festival of Weeks—an interesting name since it was just a one-day celebration. Israel had many high holy days […]
By David Faust When my wife, Candy, and I moved to a different neighborhood a couple of years ago, we asked God for opportunities to connect with our neighbors, and the Lord answered our prayers. A Muslim family whose house sits directly across the street from ours invited Candy to attend a monthly Turkish cooking […]
Guest editorial by Mark Taylor Over the next three weeks, we’re looking at three groups—men, women, and children—and considering the topics that each often face. We kick things off with the gentlemen and some words from our publisher and editor of Christian Standard, Mark Taylor. While attending a conference, a friend and I visited a […]
By Melissa Wuske High School Experiences & Inequality Carla Shedd, part of Columbia University’s sociology and African-American studies departments, studied high schools in Chicago—several segregated and several more diverse—to discover how students’ school experiences shape the way they see themselves and how they view experiences of inequality. She found that black and Hispanic students in […]
