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By Ben Meredith In 2010, I was gainfully employed as an Evangelical Christian college minister in Raleigh, North Carolina. That was such a rewarding and challenging job, not without its share of cordial-but-confrontational conversations; I was (vocationally) confronting students and faculty on a worldview level about deep-rooted existential questions! Over

How it unfolded from a radio operator’s perspective.

By Joshua Majeski As an Evangelical Christian, I never thought hearing the phrase “Christ is King” would make me cringe. But in the last couple of years, I've seen this basic articulation of Christian faith used in a way that makes me feel a combination of anger, shame,

By Sarah Norberg Maybe everyone grows up underappreciating or even resenting their hometown. I distinctly remember complaining with my friends in high school about the limitations of Folsom, California — a suburb east of Sacramento — where we had grown up in privilege: boring, upper-middle class bourgeoisie with top performing public schools,

By Yash Sharma Regardless of their politics, everyone has a view on immigration. More often than not, people support legal immigration over illegal immigration. Both sides also generally agree that highly skilled immigrants are a valuable asset to the U.S. economy. I would even say most people who immigrate

By Carl Crawford  For my tenth birthday, my grandfather got me the Ken Burns documentary, Baseball. I do not know why my grandfather decided that a Ken Burns documentary was an appropriate gift for a child; I assume it was something he thought he might find of use during his

By Anonymous MD Editor's Note: This article is an updated version of a previously published piece by Anonymous MD that makes use of footnotes. Scroll to the bottom to see the references. I am a physician, a husband, and a father. I am a religious man; my faith