The Archive

Every essay.

Sandip ChauhanChurch

Banyan Church

Growth is a sign of life. The question is what kind of growth preserves life rather than stretching it to the point of fracture.

Hayden NesbitChurchFormation

Formed by Song: How Music Shapes the Christian Life

Throughout church history the great teachers of the faith have commended music to us as a vehicle for living the Christian life.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

The Strange Saints of A. Muia’s Desert Between Two Seas

A recent award-winning novel tells the story of two modern-day desert saints.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

The Strange Saints of A. Muia’s Desert Between Two Seas

A recent award-winning novel tells the story of two modern-day desert saints.

Adam FinkneyChurchFormation

Tradition Didn’t Kill My Faith. Amnesia Almost Did.

I didn’t lose my faith because Christianity asked too much of me. I nearly lost it because it asked too little.

Adam FinkneyChurchFormation

Tradition Didn’t Kill My Faith. Amnesia Almost Did.

I didn’t lose my faith because Christianity asked too much of me. I nearly lost it because it asked too little.

Jake MeadorCultureChurchBook ReviewsFormation

Liturgies of the Wild and Non-Expressivist Religion

If you want people to be bewildered by church, then church needs to be weird in some way.

David HenrecksonEducationFormation

Moral and Spiritual Hunger in the Classroom

If I’m upfront about my commitments, and offer an invitation to interrogate their commitments in light of our texts, the 'problem' of pluralism evaporates.

John AhernCulture

The Plight of the Protestant Scholar

The tendency amongst evangelicals to articulate a kind of lowest common denominator form of Protestantism undermines their movement intellectually.

Ian HarberFamilyFormation

The Need for Father-Scholars

How many fathers could, like the author of the Proverbs, pass down a repository of wisdom about all of life to their children?

Nadya WilliamsChurchBook ReviewsFormation

Preparing for Lent and Easter with a Cloud of Witnesses

The new edition of Plough's Lent and Easter reader features 96 texts that will help us remember the strange anticipation and hope of the Christian faith.

Matthew AdamsChurchFormation

Unreasonable Hospitality and the Ordinary Work of the Church

Churches are often good at transactions and routines. But while structure is important, if it is not paired with genuine care, it is insufficient.