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Film Reviews/HollywoodCultureBlake Nail
The original Robin was not a vigilante, but a pious servant of the Virgin Mary and a divine avenger who brought God's justice.
Mitchell BahnsenFormationCulture
Conspiracy theories offer an idolatrous and man-centered imitation of the doctrine of divine providence.
TechnologyBooksFormationSamuel James
In my own life I see very clearly how media consumption has frequently been the center of my existential gravity—the reason I declined invitations, or stayed up too late, or ignored that person. Life is risky. Content is safe.
ChurchFormationJoshua Heavin
Were I to try to describe what pastoral ministry is like, that smell — baptismal chrism in the house of mourning — is what pastoral ministry is like.
CultureGenderFamilyNadya Williams
How might someone who attended this conference misunderstand some fundamental premises of the sex-realist project so profoundly?
Amy DiMarcangeloGenderTheology
If we want to guard against the errors of the past—and equip our teens to navigate the cultural pressures of the present—it is essential to teach them why their bodies matter.
EducationFormationBooksChristine Norvell
Seeing a great soul in pain or death should transform these concepts of pain and death for us because tragedy involves the dignity and significance of human life, and often, man’s ability to endure suffering.
BooksFormationNadya Williams
"However it’s used, my prayer is the same: that people will receive this liturgy as a gift, placing themselves before God day after day with open hands."
ScienceCultureJessica Miskelly
The real conundrum is why science was eventually recognized by many as the ultimate arbiter of rational knowledge and became entrenched as such in the popular imagination.
Jake MeadorCultureFormationChurch
If the devices we spend so much of our lives absorbed in are shaping us to be angry, reactive, and combative, and if the communities that would help shape us in better ways are scarce, what can be done?
Ian OlsonCultureTheology
Re-enchantment will be enticing for the dissatisfied but enchantment doesn’t carry an intrinsically Christian valence.
Emily CarringtonFamilyTheology
God will redeem my grief when I hold my babies in my arms. But today I honor their bodies with the grief I carry inside of me that they have no resting place on this side of heaven.