Just Over the Hill
One discovery quietly leads to another until you stop seeing a place simply as somewhere you live and begin seeing it as somewhere you belong.
Peter Preble
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Peter Preble
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Category History & Tradition
The Ghosts on My Dining Room Wall: Learning to Listen to the Puritans Again
The figures on my dining room wall and the pencil marks of an unknown reader reminded me that history is not silent. The past still speaks, if we are willing to listen.
America, America, God Mend Thine Every Flaw
We stand on a threshold between those who entrusted this nation to us and those who will one day receive it from our hands. The question before us is not simply what kind of nation we have inherited. The deeper question is what kind of ancestors we are willing to become.
Beyond Separation: Church, State, and the Christian Vocation
What if the debate over church and state is older—and richer—than our modern political arguments suggest? Before we settle into today's slogans, perhaps we should return to eighteenth-century New England, where faithful Christians wrestled with conscience, covenant, liberty, and the Gospel itself. The questions they asked may be exactly the questions we still need to ask today.
Covenant: From Noah to the Republic — The Biblical Foundation of a People Bound Together Before God
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, I thought it might be worth reflecting not only on the events that shaped the nation’s birth but also on the ideas, convictions, and theological traditions that…
Hope, Grace, and the Founding of a Nation
Our ancestors in faith believed that God had created a moral universe in which actions had consequences and justice mattered. This created a framework in which tyranny was not merely a political problem; it was a moral and spiritual violation.