Front Porch Republic

Lamentations 5:4 bewails, “We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.” In exile, Israel mourned the loss of free access to the land’s gifts.

Clavier introduces a colorful cast of characters in the first few chapters of the novel. Luckily, we’re given a character index at the beginning of the book, so if you get a little lost, simply flip back a few pages…

She cares for the Kid until he mends. And what does the Kid do to her in return? “He has no money to pay her and he leaves in the night.” The first explicit charity given to him, and the…

Like most of my colleagues, I routinely familiarize myself with the iPatient before going to meet the real patient. Their story is told in numbers, flowsheets, radiology reports, and poorly written, heavily templated clinical notes.

While Moses was on the mountain, the people below grew restless. They melted their gold, those quiet tokens of comfort and memory, and shaped a god they could see. Their faith didn’t collapse from doubt but from discomfort; they simply…

Let’s examine some practical possibilities.

Through short and accessible chapters, Crosby makes a case for the inspiration that comes through reading. In Part 1, he lays the foundation—the why and what of reading, from stories to scripture. In Part 2, he welcomes us to the…

When the fall semester began, several classes attempted streaks. No one expected all the classes to succeed, but it seemed especially unlikely that underclassmen would. Yet they succeeded.

What should we make of a marionette production? What should we make of an artificial park?

It’s gray, flat, dim, quiet, and temperate, and I’m looking at all that gray, flat, dimness, while it’s quiet and temperate.

When the same symbol keeps emerging in such different scenes—Hebrew scripture, neighborhood storm drains, progressive street theater, alt-right image boards—it is worth asking why. We are not choosing frogs at random. We keep summoning them because they fit the job…

Accessible and hospitable.