The Archive

Every essay.

Austin GravleyTechnologyChurch

How a Google Voice Number Transformed My Youth Ministry

My students can ask an AI their theological questions. But while I cannot compete with the speed and thoroughness of a machine, a machine can't compete with the fact that I am human and it is not.

Andrew NobleTechnology

How AI Calculators Become Our Companions

The advice to "use AI like a tool, not a person," is insufficient. The very nature of the product is personal because the medium is personified. And as the latest friendship statistics keep repeating: we live in a lonely age. It's not enough to tame this desire with suppression.

Ralph Wood

Remembering Chip Conyers, a Protestant Saint

Chip Conyers embodied—like none other whom I’ve ever known—the central Christian belief that we are already living in the New Age, that the Kingdom of God is not an idealistic hope to be realized in some far-off time but a present reality.

Joseph Whitenton

Faith Comes by Hearing: On the Word of God, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Public Worship

What happens to our ears goes down deep into our hearts. And the Church yearns for this humble reception of her Lord. This is her very Life. That’s why it’s so important to fix your sound problems.

Patrick SchreinerBook Reviews

What the Four Senses of Scripture Are, and What They Are Not

The four senses remind us that Scripture was never meant to be read merely as an ancient text to be analyzed. It is God's Word that reveals Christ, forms disciples, and directs our hope toward the coming kingdom.

Joshua HeavinThe HeronBook ReviewsTheology

The Heron #2: Forthcoming Theology Books

Featuring books from Malcolm Guite, Michael C. Legaspi, Matthew Emerson, and Alexander Pierce amongst others

Brad LittlejohnTechnology

One Tool to Rule Them All

“But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.” –Henry David Thoreau, Walden  

Kirsten SandersBook Reviews

The Genetics of Vice

Though she has stumbled exactly onto the Christian question, unfortunately, Harden hasn’t given enough credit to the Christian answer.

Elizabeth SticeBook Reviews

All the Way Home

In most books about loneliness, we receive recommendations for restoring institutions and communities. Yet Corbin looks beyond church membership and bowling leagues, to virtuous friendship and primordial experiences.

Jake AdkinsFilm Reviews/HollywoodCulture

Remythologizing the Myths: Christopher Nolan's Odyssey and the Fractures in a Secular Age

Notes on Homer, Christopher Nolan, Kevin Vanhoozer, and how the flat world built by a century of demythologizing is generating its own dissatisfaction

Thomas D. HowesJames M. PattersonBook Reviews

What Is Old Is the New World Order Again

We do not wish to see postliberal regimes come into being because we wish to see people live full lives both materially and spiritually, something we show that postliberalism cannot offer.

Jake MeadorChurchCulture

Is the Era of Mere Christianity Over?

We may be entering an era marked by the continued decline of denominationalism alongside an increase in theological factionalism.