The Archive

Every essay.

Joshua HeavinBook Reviews

Ryle's Vision of the Christian Life

The 19th century Anglican bishop J. C. Ryle offers a compelling and useful model for ministry and preaching in our own day.

John EhrettCulture

Elites and the Evangelical Class War

Much of the fighting around the idea of 'evangelical elites' is bound up in issues of class and the reality that pugilist antics do not produce elites.

Jake MeadorCulture

The Promise of a Christian Small Magazine

A small magazine occupies a unique role in the task of creating an ecosystem of mutually reenforcing Christian institutions devoted to the good of society.

Hayden NesbitChurchFormation

How the Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Ten Commandments Ground Spiritual Formation and Soul Care

The Apostle's Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Decalogue can help us to understand both what we are and what we might become.

Eric McLaughlinCulture

Who Is Rich and Who Is Poor?

Having an accurate idea of who is rich and who is poor, relatively speaking, can help us better understand the Christian call to generosity.

Nadya WilliamsFamilyCulture

In This House of Death: What Does Sanctity of Human Life Month Mean in 2026?

Abigail Favale's new novel suggests a vision of what the sanctity of life means in a society that has lost all regard for it.

Miles SmithCulture

You can't clear cut political society.

If our political society is like a forest, then attempts to clear cut it will do to us what they do to forests: leave them poorer and sicker.

James WoodFormation

Suffering as Spiritual Formation

When spiritual formation comes up we think of scripture reading or prayer or a rule of life. But the suffering we don't choose can be enormously formative.

Jake MeadorCulture

On Communicating Truth, Goodness, and Beauty

Learning to compelling convey truth and beauty is not an ability we simply acquire in a rote way; it is a capacity that is cultivated over a lifetime.

Wyatt GrahamTechnologyFormation

When We Become the Product: Heidegger, Han, and Digital Enframing

Digital technology orders the world and ourselves as resources ready for market, a process Heidegger calls enframing and Han traces into the digital age.

David J. ChamberlinCultureChurchFormation

A Framework for Faithful Ministry Leadership

Retired US Navy Vice Admiral John Scott Redd developed a framework for defining virtuous leadership which can apply in a variety of settings.

A. A. KostasFormation

Tramping Out of Dante's Hell

Instead of focusing on what is wrong and distasteful about our world, focus on what you want your life to be about and move doggedly in that direction.