HSF Conversations: Christians and the Military with Dr. Richard E. Myrick
In this episode of HSF Conversations, senior contributor and associate editor Phillip T. Morgan discusses with retired Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Richard E. Myrick what it is like for a Christian to serve in the military, the unique opportunities and challenges that military life offers, and how churches can best minister to those serving in the military. With twenty years of active service in the United States Marine Corps, Dr. Myrick...
Show Kindness and Mercy: Benevolence or Redistribution?
In our winter 2025 Recommended Books post, senior contributor Jesse F. Owens praised Alex DiPrima’s Spurgeon and the Poor: How the Gospel Compels Christian Social Concern for its call to Christian social action. His laudatory summary caught my eye. These kinds of exhortations are exactly what we need to bring before our fellow believers. We need to remember that the second great commandment (Mk. 12:31) calls us to love our neighbor as...
The Industrial F·a·m·i·l·y
Political and cultural conservatives have spent the last several decades sounding alarms about the state of the family in our society. We can easily find a slew of articles or podcasts bemoaning the rise of single motherhood, sexual libertinism, pornography, and abortion. However, as Wendell Berry noted in the early 1990s, these “conservative” defenses of the nuclear family have generally rung hollow because they have failed to...
Faith in A Dry and Dusty Land
Need is an incredible motivator. Impending danger to a loved one can propel even the meekest person to face down fears and threats that would usually paralyze him or her. The presence of need focuses our attention precisely on a specific problem. Our vision irises down to a single point and everything else is set aside for the moment. However, when we give our full attention to the dangers we perceive in our lives, we sometimes even...
Every Nation under Heaven: Biblical Nationalism III
In two previous essays, I explored the nature of national identity through God’s work creating nations at the Tower of Babel, forcing the children of Noah to fulfill His command to fill the earth, and then His crafting of a single nation from the man Abraham. Though we could draw much more from the Old Testament on the nature of nations (I recommend giving attention to the book of Isaiah), we turn to Acts 2 in the New Testament in...
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