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Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
Schmitz argues that democracies force their members to choose between liberty and Christianity. Historic Protestantism says this is a false dichotomy.
Caleb Wait
Andrew, Matt, and Derek sit down to discuss the phenomenon of multi-site churches. Andrew argues for the soundness of such an ecclesiastical practice and Matt and Derek aren’t so sure. If you’re interested in supporting the show financially, […]
Jake Meador
Conservative neo-liberal defenses of 'liberty' fail because ultimately their definition of liberty is horrifying.
Michael ShindlerFeatured
As men require a heaping dose of dreams to reconcile themselves to waking life, so too does the hulking Leviathan of society require its dreams—which are films. This fantastical notion—that films function as society’s dreams—was first heralded by a smattering […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics
Any social program that attempts to chart the way through late liberalism that doesn't foreground the goodness of life will fail in its aims.
Guest WriterBibleFeaturedEvangelicalism
Can one affirm a type of theistic evolution and serve in the SBC? The Baptist Faith and Message doesn't give a clear answer.
Jake MeadorFeatured
Families, churches, and governments are not complete societies in themselves. Nations are. And we ought to belong to those nations as Christian citizens.
Michael McKoyFeatured
An American nationalism that lacks an understanding of America's injustice to minorities will be unable to overcome the charge of racism appended to it.
Caleb Wait
Who is an evangelical? Dr. Thomas Kidd joins Matt and Derek to discuss this pertinent question which is also the title to his recent book, Who Is an Evangelical?: The History of a Movement in Crisis. Listen in on why […]
Matthew Lee AndersonFeaturedCurrent Politics
Werntz's essay rightly foregrounds the centrality of economics in understanding nations, but its treatment of economic injustice is reductionistic.
Matthew LoftusPoliticsFeatured
People ought to live in close relationship to their family and place of birth. But western nations have made that very difficult for the majority world.
John ThomasEconomics and Business
Applebaum’s book traces the rise of free market economic policies in the U.S. and how those policies have increased inequality and harmed liberal democracy.