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Jake MeadorChurch

Church Does Not Equal Content

(I’m indebted to Mark Sayers and Myles Werntz for much of what follows.) If church can just permanently be online for anyone who wishes it to be, then church is effectively little more than content: it’s music and speech beamed […]

Emily DeArdoFeatured

Reepicheep's Purity of Heart

Clearly, Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the best of the Narnia novels, and a big part of that is due to a talking mouse. Yes. I’m talking about Reepicheep, the brave, swashbuckling Narnian mouse who is on a quest […]

Rebekah CurtisFeatured

Headaches and Housekeeping, Somebody Likes Prince Caspian?

When I say that Prince Caspian is the best of the Chronicles of Narnia, I say it in the same way that I say I’d rather eat a chopped salad than anything else, or that my favorite pastime is going […]

Matthew LoftusFamilyEducation

why "education doesn't work"

There are two primary problems with "failing schools" and American children. Don't confuse them.

Chandler MooreFeatured

The Place for Meeting Aslan is the Stone Table

We are finally publishing the winners of our much delayed essay contest challenging readers to make their case for which book is the best in C. S. Lewis’s beloved series, The Chronicles of Narnia. Our series kicks off today with […]

Benjamin Wayman and Kent DunningtonFeaturedChurchCurrent Politicshealth

Friendship Through a Pandemic: Seeing More Clearly With Stanley Hauerwas

Ephraim Radner and others have recently reflected that the church’s theologians have said shockingly little about the pandemic that’s really been helpful, that’s helped Christians think clearly about this global crisis. To get our heads straight, minds clear, and hearts […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedChurchFormation

He is Risen

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Jake MeadorFeaturedChurchFormation

Good Friday

Every year on Good Friday as a rule we go dark with regards to publishing new essays or reviews. Instead, we share a few songs to help people mark Good Friday. I pray that today will be a somber one […]

Zach HollifieldFeatured

A Surprisingly Therapeutic Reading of Cormac McCarthy

A global pandemic claiming millions of lives. An invasion of the largest European nation besides the one invading it resulting in the deaths of hundreds and hundreds of civilians including children. The countless “micro” and mundane atrocities we ourselves experience […]

Grace HumblesFamilyFeatured

"Unpaid Gestation" and the Abolition of the Family

Every day, 385,000 newborn babies enter the world. A fledgling group of theorists and writers is interested in reimagining how we think about these births and the children they produce. Using the provocative tagline “Abolish the Family,” this group of […]

Myles WerntzFeatured

How "Isolation" Helps Us Understand Sin

Loneliness and even estrangement we are familiar with, but isolation? Is this too strong a term to describe the ways in which sin afflicts our common life? The skepticism of this nomenclature, I think, is twofold. First, it may come […]

Cort GatliffFeatured

Death and New Life on Holy Saturday

In the center of the photograph, an injured young woman lies on a stretcher. Her face is dusted in ash. Her left hand cradles her pregnant stomach. Men armed with rifles and wearing bulletproof vests carry her through the smoldering […]