The Archive

Every essay.

Kirsten SandersBook ReviewsThe Magpie

The Magpie 4: Metrics and the Loss of Values

Nguyen's 'The Score' helps expose the ways in which an attachment to metrics reenforces bureaucracy and undercuts much of what makes life pleasurable.

Jamie WilderCulture

James Talarico's Gospel

A Christian faith that questions if God really cares about things addressed in Scripture and reduces the Gospel to law following is a false Christianity.

Chase KrugFamily

How Marriage Actually Refers to Christ and the Church

Marriages do not image Christ and the church only if they meet certain subjective criteria; the fact of one-flesh covenantal union is an objective image.

Matthew SchultzTechnology

Artificial Intelligence is a Technology

The early fears currently associated with AI are not that different from those of older generations with other technologies.

Jake MeadorTechnology

Confronting the Unman

How exactly should we understand a world in which people willingly outsource something as fundamental as human conversation to a machine?

Nadya WilliamsFamilyBook Reviews

Discipleship Begins in the Home (But the Church Is Essential Too)

Cam Shaffer's new book is a vital and sobering reminder of the fact that for Christian children faith is often caught more than it is taught.

Eddie LaRowTechnology

Gen Z and the Search for Status

As material wealth seems more and more remote, the rising generations are turning online to search for status.

Nadya WilliamsFamily

Marriage, Family, and the Intellectual Life: Interview with John and Katelyn Shelton

We continue our interview series on family and the intellectual life with a conversation with John and Katelyn Shelton.

Jake MeadorFormation

The Bright Sadness of Ben Sasse

Ben Sasse has made a gift of his dying, something which he can do only because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Hannah Miller KingBook Reviews

The Prophetic Practice of Joy

Christianity forbids us from diminishing sin’s gravity or effects. We are compelled to grieve. But we have reason to rejoice because rescue has come.

Elizabeth SticeFamily

The Goodness of Caring for Other People's Children

Raising virtuous and mature people requires an immense amount of work—and when that work can be shared amongst trusted friends everyone is helped.

Hayden NesbitTechnologyChurch

The Mad Farmer on Claude, AI, and the Church

The church is the community of contrariness in the world, not because it is anti-technology, but because it is pro-unpredictable mystery