Matt Kaufman

“I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure.” — Olympic runner Eric Liddell, Chariots of Fire I thought of that line during a discussion of the Olympics yesterday. A friend had been wondering, “Wha …

How do God and country go together?

Flipping TV channels, I came across a familiar scenario on one show. A woman thought she had a great opportunity (a job); a friend of hers thought he saw red flags and was warning her; she got mad at him for not being “supportive.” Leaving aside who wa …

A couple weeks ago I got a traffic ticket. It was no big deal, you could say — a rolling stop on a right turn, with no other cars or pedestrians in the intersection. Still, I was guilty: There was, to be honest, rather more rolling than stopping going …

It’s a tawdry tale of two adulterers, each with children (he with three, she with two), who left their spouses to marry each other. But it’s not being treated as a tawdry tale. It’s in The New York Times, in the feel-good “Weddings/Celebrations” sectio …

‘Tis the season for, among other things, the annual division between those who say “Merry Christmas” and those who say “Happy Holidays.” You’ll never catch me saying the latter, for reasons I trust don’t need explaining on a Christian site. But I must …