The Archive
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
Dr. Harold Senkbeil—Adjunct Professor at Concordia Theological Seminary and Executive Director with DOXOLOGY: The Lutheran Center for Spiritual Care and Counsel—joins Derek and Alastair to discuss his latest
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, […]
Brian WilliamsFeaturedEvangelicalism
Over a career of 65 years J. I. Packer showed how to be a catechetical theologian—pray, meditate on Scripture, and struggle to remain faithful to the text.
Brad LittlejohnPolitical Theory
Roger Scruton's thought on how to be a conservative is also instructive in how to belong to a political community.