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Anthony BradleyFeaturedEvangelicalism
Matrilineal societies, such as evangelicalism, are cultures in which women are the primary carriers of social memory and keepers of social order.
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'An Introduction to Theological Anthropology,' with Dr. Joshua Farris
Bill MeloneFeatured
Racial injustice has become an unavoidable topic for American Christianity. It challenges all levels of relational unity, from large ecclesial networks to personal friendships. When relational unity is challenged and fractured, we naturally search for the source of the problem, […]
David BlackFeaturedHistoryEconomics and Business
“This is wrong,” the witch said. “Witches turn children into cookies. Children don’t turn witches into cookies. It’s against the natural order.”
Jake MeadorFeatured
Fame in God's country and fame on earth are two quite different things. So let us now remember a woman beloved of God, famous in his country.
Caleb Wait
What is the best polemical posture? Or are there ways to creatively rearticulate the truths of the faith that prevent the necessity of polemics in the first place? The full cast and crew of Matt, Derek, Alastair, and Andrew sit […]
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 […]