Articles by Val Dunham

To ignore or even chastise female athleticism—or to tacitly treat it as a lesser form of athleticism by providing inferior treatment—undermines the breadth of creation.

The film’s highs and lows are mined from something viscerally human and somehow understated: the desire for connection.

The issue of reopening schools has raised a question we’ve been putting off for far too long: what is the purpose of public education?

In a pandemic, how can we foster the community so crucial for education?

We are not calibrated to the sight of a woman displaying unapologetic physical prowess.

I don’t think a heavy-handed scene in which the women of the MCU are haphazardly thrown together is reason enough on its own to cheer, but I am encouraged by the possibility that Marvel recognizes a deficiency.

Earley coined his rule of life “The Common Rule” because it was intended for the common American—those who, like Earley, find themselves buying into American habits that divert us from the practices of Christ and toward the practices of achievement.

Although the redeeming power of community has become a nearly trite refrain among Christian spaces, Atypical points to the price community demands.

With the appropriate ideological shift, Americans could expand their pallets to appreciate slower games.

The Bachelor did what the WWE did years ago—they stopped insisting on the totality of their own illusion.

The popular drama has shown me more meaningful ways to hope.

The #MeToo campaign, however imperfect, fashioned fellowship out of isolation.

In Vintage Saints and Sinners, Karen Wright Marsh manages to emphasize the vast goodness of spiritual giants while also humanizing them.

Not all women who walk through miscarriage will hold a rainbow baby.

Netflix’s Atypical is not truly about a boy with autism. Rather, it’s about the way love ebbs and flows through every community.

Whether or not ABC moved in the right direction for the right reason, it undoubtedly is the right direction.