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Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

Thinking Christianly About the Ahmaud Arbery Lynching

Let’s start here. This is what we know about what happened in February in Brunswick GA when Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed according to the New York Times: BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Ahmaud Arbery loved to run. It was how […]

Malcolm FoleyFeaturedCurrent Politics

Lynching Then and Lynching Now: Racial Justice as Christian Imperative

The killing of Ahmaud Arbery is tragically not an anomaly in American history: It is, rather, another tragic chapter in our nation's long story of lynching.

Todd HainsFeatured

The Gospel is for Us

We should not act as if the Gospel of individual salvation and the Gospel of Jesus's kingship are rivals; they both belong together.

Caleb Wait

The Future of Christian Higher Education with Dr. John Mark Reynolds

College debt, an economic crisis, and the potential problem of aristocratic elitism in classical education are just some of the issues facing Christian higher education today. Here to discuss these and more, Matt and Derek are joined by Dr. John […]

B. G. WhiteFeatured

Crisis of Vulnerability

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to reckon with a fact that our world tries very hard to ignore: we are all vulnerable and doomed to die.

Jake MeadorFeatured

Liberalism, the American Right, and the Place of Love in Politics

Gregory's "Politics and the Order of Love" is a helpful guide for thinking carefully about key questions in the debates happening on the American right.

Paul OwenFeaturedChurch

Is Anglicanism a Gateway to Catholicism?: A Defense of Anglo-Catholicism

The Oxford Movement wasn't an innovation in Anglican liturgy, but actually an attempt to return to an older Anglicanism that had existed from the beginning.

Daniel DeCarloFeaturedCurrent Politics

To Help Persecuted Christians the U.S. Needs to Freeze the Buhari Regime's Stolen Funds

The US is considering returning $300m in stolen funds to Nigeria's Buhari regime despite the government's rampant corruption and persecution of Christians.

David FrankFeaturedEconomics and BusinessFormation

The Case for Donating Your Stimulus Check

During a pandemic, it always feels dark. Many future unknowns await us. But we can learn from an unknown Jewish prisoner who penned this line in a poem he wrote within his concentration camp cell.

Caleb WaitCultureTheologyChurchpastoringMere Fidelityministry

"The Care of Souls," with Dr. Harold Senkbeil

Amidst life's demands and pastoral burnout, how does a pastor care for a soul? Dr. Harold Senkbeil joins Matt and Derek to discuss his recent book, The Care

David KoyzisFeaturedCurrent Politics

Clash of Idols

The three dominant political blocs in contemporary America are all idolatrous in ways that make it difficult for Christians to support them in their work.

Matthew ArboFeatured

The Importance of Political Theology

A mature political theology can help questions understand the nature of their citizenship in the world and what that does (and doesn't) require of them.