The Archive

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Marc SimsBibleCultureTheology

What to Learn from the Decline of Young Earth Creationism

The decline of young earth creationism is a reminder that soft cultural pressures and historical ignorance can prove devastating for any movement.

Hayden NesbitChurch

Evangelism in a World of Control and Aggression

Because of our world-muting acceleration, our evangelistic efforts would be wise to reawaken attentiveness to the created order.

Matthew LoftusCulture

10 Reasons Evangelicals are Cringe

The reasons for evangelicalism's self-inferiority complex and inability to produce elites are mixed, some are largely good while others are less so.

Kirsten SandersBook ReviewsThe Magpie

The Magpie 4: Metrics and the Loss of Values

Nguyen's 'The Score' helps expose the ways in which an attachment to metrics reenforces bureaucracy and undercuts much of what makes life pleasurable.

Jamie WilderCulture

James Talarico's Gospel

A Christian faith that questions if God really cares about things addressed in Scripture and reduces the Gospel to law following is a false Christianity.

Chase KrugFamily

How Marriage Actually Refers to Christ and the Church

Marriages do not image Christ and the church only if they meet certain subjective criteria; the fact of one-flesh covenantal union is an objective image.

Matthew SchultzTechnology

Artificial Intelligence is a Technology

The early fears currently associated with AI are not that different from those of older generations with other technologies.

Jake MeadorTechnology

Confronting the Unman

How exactly should we understand a world in which people willingly outsource something as fundamental as human conversation to a machine?

Nadya WilliamsFamilyBook Reviews

Discipleship Begins in the Home (But the Church Is Essential Too)

Cam Shaffer's new book is a vital and sobering reminder of the fact that for Christian children faith is often caught more than it is taught.

Eddie LaRowTechnology

Gen Z and the Search for Status

As material wealth seems more and more remote, the rising generations are turning online to search for status.

Nadya WilliamsFamily

Marriage, Family, and the Intellectual Life: Interview with John and Katelyn Shelton

We continue our interview series on family and the intellectual life with a conversation with John and Katelyn Shelton.

Jake MeadorFormation

The Bright Sadness of Ben Sasse

Ben Sasse has made a gift of his dying, something which he can do only because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.