The Archive
Nick DalbeyFeatured
In his comedy sketch about “Stuff,” George Carlin joked that the whole meaning of life can be described as “Trying to find a place to put your stuff!” After all, that’s what a house is: it’s a “place to keep […]
Benjamin WoollardFeaturedEconomics and Business
On a number of the shelves in my home sit baskets that I have made myself. I took up the craft out of a need for contrast in what is a largely abstract existence, mostly consisting of reading and computer […]
Leah Libresco SargeantFeaturedChurch
I don’t think there’s anyone better to explain to Rod Dreher where he went wrong in his recent posts about the death of George Floyd than Rod Dreher. When I wrote to him (Update #8 in that linked post), I […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
What we need is a political vision to lead America out of immanence and back to transcendence. Two midwestern senators have rival visions of how to do that.
Caleb Wait
Matt, Derek, and Alastair discuss the passage in the gospels that depict Jesus’s encounter with the Syrophoenician woman. At first, and perhaps even at a second, glance, this complicated passage appears to incriminate Jesus of some sort of racial prejudice. […]
Susannah Black RobertsUncategorized
This is the text of this week’s Breaking Ground newsletter. To view the website, and to sign up for the newsletter, go here. If, in January, we thought that we had transcended the limits of our physicality, we know better […]
Daniel DeCarloFeaturedCurrent Politics
Human beings are inextricably religious creatures desiring transcendent purpose. Populism ignores this fact. Woke integralism does not.
Matthew LoftusCultureCriminal Justice
A collection of thoughts about race, policing, and the Church in America.
Caleb WaitPainSufferingCultureTheologytheodicyMere Fidelity
'Christ and Calamity,' with Dr. Harold Senkbeil
Stephen G. AdubatoFeatured
The onslaught of comments following J.K. Rowling’s critique of gender theory demonstrates an ever-growing confusion toward sexual difference and the concept of personhood more generally. “If sex isn’t real,” she tweeted, “the lived reality of women globally is erased. I […]
Onsi A. KamelFeatured
Differences in how English and American missionaries approached their work in Egypt are suggestive of deeper problems within American Protestantism.
Caleb Wait
The Imago Dei is one of the most used theological categories to argue why all humans deserve dignity and sanctity. However, is this all that the imago dei should be used for? The entire cast and crew of Matt, Derek, […]