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Health and MedicineBook ReviewsCultureAmy Mantravadi

When Therapy Culture Comes to Church

Loftus's critique of therapeutic culture is not academic analysis as much as personal. He desires genuine healing precisely because of his close experience with sickness.

ChurchFormationPhil Gaudreau

What to do When Authors We Love Sin

Our church library's little cull started as a judgement on the work and ministries of certain authors, but it was more than that.

ObituaryChurchDerek Rishmawy

In Praise of My Youth Pastor

Youth pastors get a bad rap today. Some for good reason. But I've never been able to personally identify with it. Maybe that’s because God gave me the best one a kid could ever ask for.

Book ReviewsChurchMichael Niebauer

Why Your Church Should Use a Lectionary

Churches that choose to utilize a lectionary will discover an ancient, faithful encounter with God’s word that highlights the rich harmonic interconnectedness of Old Testament, New Testament, liturgy, and the life of the people of God

Dylan PahmanCulture

The Problem of Christian Socialism

As socialism gains new influence in American public life, Christians face an old question with fresh urgency: can devotion to Christ and socialism truly coexist? 

WritingTechnologyZak Mellgren

Protecting Our Humanity with... Robots?

I know my writing is human because a robot told me so.

TechnologyChristian Sanchez

Science and the Limits of the Possible

“Do not aspire to immortal life, O my soul; but exhaust the limits of the possible.” Pindar (Pyth. III.61–62)

Christopher JonesTechnology

American Evangelicals Long for the Embrace of the Machine God

No computer program can determine truth. But the authoritative-sounding voice and the ability to get an answer to any question that statistically feels right, even if it’s wrong, are beguiling.

Resisting Therapy Culture with Matthew Loftus

Date: Tuesday, August 25 Time: 11:30 AM CST Location: Online Total Seats: 100 The Event - Keynote from Matthew Loftus on Resisting Therapy Culture - Interview between Matthew Loftus and Jake

Kirsten SandersThe MagpieBook Reviews

The Magpie #6: Wilderness

Readers seem less interested in the subject matter than in having their own prior opinions endorsed. But what good nonfiction needs is the integrity of an author who knows what she thinks and takes ownership of it.

David McNuttFormation

Living and Dying with the Saints in Wheaton

"A time will come when we will know what all this is for. And there will be no mysteries. We will know why we live. We’ll come together. We’ll plan orchards. Fields. We’ll build the land back up. Franz, I’ll meet you there. In the mountains."

TechnologyFormationHayden Nesbit

Saying 'Here I Am' in the Digital Age

We must pray for hearts that desire not a fragile, fleeting sense of self that must be recreated each day while we await validation via notifications, but one that longs to join the mission of the Triune God to bring flourishing to every good and beautiful place including where you are.