The Archive

Every essay.

Wyatt GrahamTechnologyFormation

When We Become the Product: Heidegger, Han, and Digital Enframing

Digital technology orders the world and ourselves as resources ready for market, a process Heidegger calls enframing and Han traces into the digital age.

David J. ChamberlinCultureChurchFormation

A Framework for Faithful Ministry Leadership

Retired US Navy Vice Admiral John Scott Redd developed a framework for defining virtuous leadership which can apply in a variety of settings.

A. A. KostasFormation

Tramping Out of Dante's Hell

Instead of focusing on what is wrong and distasteful about our world, focus on what you want your life to be about and move doggedly in that direction.

Matthew CaponeCultureRacial ReconciliationHistory

The Christian Achievement of Martin Luther King Jr.

King remained tethered to a Christian understanding of non-violence and human dignity. This produced a distinctively Christian political strategy.

Andrew KoperskiCulture

Why Populism is a Problem for the Intellectual Right

Populism break things. So while it lacks the political capital to reform mainstream higher ed, it does have the power to mangle the Intellectual Right.

Eddie LaRowCultureFormation

The Rise of the Skilled (and Lonely) Consumer

Cultivating friendship with others in a society set for loneliness requires deliberate choosing and commitment and even sacrifice.

Kirsten SandersBook ReviewsThe Magpie

Magpie 3: Gender and Kwaku’s Car

Sometimes what we need is not a top-down technique to fix an unjust system; we need to jerry-rig a solution within the parameters of our own context.

Trevin WaxChurchBook ReviewsFormation

The Rise and Fall of Confession—and What It Reveals

The collapse of confession in Catholic America may seem like a story about Rome, but it reveals something true about us all.

Haley BaumeisterFamilyTechnologySexuality

Why It Is Difficult to Talk About Ethics of the Body

Contemporary emotivism as well as the deeply human desires that stand behind it conspire to make discussing the ethics of the body immensely difficult.

Alan NobleFormation

Courage and the Loneliness Crisis

Many of the fears that drive us toward isolation are not wholly wrong or misguided. What is needed is a way of overcoming those anxieties.

Daniel K. WilliamsBook Reviews

How Should Evangelicals Respond to the Vanishing Mainline?

What happens to religious life in America when the Protestant Mainline vanishes? That is the question facing everyone in America today, Christian or not.

Brian PellCulture

Tiny Moving Parts's Defiant Joy

One way of understanding punk music and its various musical descendants is that it seeks a constructive counter-culture: it is defiant for the sake of joy.