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Susannah Black RobertsUncategorized
In certain moods I think that one of the greatest current social fights is the fight against the Grey Tribe ascendency, against the let’s-regard-humans-and-society-as-an-amoral-optimization-experiment approach to life. There are certain versions of this that are at the center of the […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
It sounds good to argue that governmental family aid should be tied to work. But what if work is actually the problem for many Americans?
James ClarkFeatured
“To be an Anglican is to talk about what it means to be an Anglican.”[1] This has certainly been the case so far in the twenty-first century, with no fewer than four books on the subject published in the past […]
Rhys LavertyFeatured
Pixar's "Soul" is the latest story to imagine the after life as a vast bureaucracy. Where it fails it fails because of the inhumanity of bureaucracy.
Matthew SheddenReadingnotes from the sermon
On Mondays I’ll be posting a quote I shared during the sermon or from the cutting room floor. I’ll post the scripture I referenced, and the connections may or may not be obvious. “Therefore everyone who hears these words of […]
Vika PecherskyFeaturedCulture War
“My wish is that this book might help Christians rediscover that their most important social task is nothing less than to be a community capable of hearing the story of God we find in the scripture and living in a […]
J. Chase DavisFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism
Christians concerned with contextualizing the gospel (i.e. thinking and living missionally) should consider the liabilities of the culture and society they inhabit. The excesses and vulnerabilities of various cultures are places where the gospel should come to bear. In western […]
Jesse RussellFeatured
In his 2006 Wired essay, “The Church of the Non-Believers,” journalist Gary Wolf coined the term “New Atheists” to describe the intellectual movement inaugurated by a quartet of thinkers who pressed for a militant revival of Neo-Darwinism in the wake […]
Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity
With all four of the Mere Fidelity crew on mic, the theological insights fly fast and furious as they take up the discussion of the Beatitudes. Highlights of this episode
Brad LittlejohnFeaturedCurrent Politics
Like a prophetic denunciation from the days of ancient Israel, the Covid-19 pandemic has come upon our self-absorbed and decadent civilization like a bolt from the blue, throwing into sharp relief the follies and fault-lines in our moral thinking and […]
Matthew EmersonFeatured
In one sense, Marilynne Robinson’s Jack is a simple love story, one complicated by the harsh realities of Jim Crow, but still at bottom the beautifully quaint tale of how Jack Boughton and Della Miles met and fell in love […]
Jeremiah LawsonFeatured
More than ever, we need a subversive history of music. We need it both to subvert the staid accounts that misrepresent the past as well as to grasp the subversive quality inherent in these catalytic sounds in our own time. […]