by Keith Herron | Jul 2, 2026 | Opinion
As an architectural student at Yale, Maya Lin traveled with a small group of other students to Washington, D.C., to get a firsthand look at the proposed site for a national monument dedicated to the Vietnam War. They were students in a senior seminar on funereal...
by Keith Herron | May 16, 2025 | Opinion
When the naiveté of the 1950s gave way to the clamoring of change in the ’60s, even the stodgy traditionalist Norman Rockwell grew. For decades, Rockwell painted what we considered our greatest American values. But in the early 1960s, he began exploring our American...
by Keith Herron | Apr 5, 2025 | Opinion
Psalm 126 (NIV) A song of ascents When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.” The Lord...
by Keith Herron | Mar 29, 2025 | Opinion
Psalm 32 “Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered…” We all live under the shadow of our culpability, masked by our denial of the true state of things. We live in an illusion about what we’ve done. Maturity is the process by which we shed...
by Keith Herron | Mar 22, 2025 | Opinion
Do you hear voices? There are voices out there proclaiming the glory of God if you’ll pay attention. Can you hear them? The Psalmist heard them, and so will we if we still ourselves enough. In Psalm 19, the psalmist describes two ways in which he heard God’s...
