The Archive
Guest WriterFeatured
Though it is often forgotten, the reformation of the 16th and 17th centuries was as much a literary event as a theological.
Peter LeithartFeatured
I. Theology As Master Discourse. I first met John Milbank, my doctoral supervisor, at a welcome event for new graduate students sponsored by the Divinity School of the University of Cambridge. During the meeting, each faculty member introduced him or […]
Matthew Lee Anderson
According to Anne Helen Peterson, millennials are the ‘burnout generation.’ Paul Gutacker, who directs the Brazos Fellows, joins Derek and Matt to consider Peterson’s essay and how Christians might respond to the problem. If you’re interested in supporting the show […]
Nathan Luis CartagenaPhilosophyBooks
The Davenant Institute's new edited volume "Philosophy and the Christian" testifies that all Christians can practice philosophy for Christ and his kingdom.
S. DormanFeatured
Local fiction has the ability to make the familiar, ordinary, even the boring seem new and surprising. It helps us see our home places with new eyes.
Myles WerntzFamilyFeaturedEthics
Christian simplicity is not only a call to a certain way of material life, it is a call toward orienting our lives toward the God who is simple.
Matthew Lee AndersonPoliticsFeaturedEvangelicalism
Can American evangelicalism be a conservative movement? If by 'conservative' we mean 'able to conserve the permanent things,' then the answer is, "no."
Matthew LoftusEconomics
I have long been interested in the work of the Land Institute and their perennial crops, so I appreciated this story about how people are trying to use them: “Mainstream agriculture, they just don’t get it,” says Jerry Doan, standing […]
Derek RishmawyFeaturedEvangelicalism
How has progressive evangelicalism shifted in the last several years? How has it remained the same? Derek Rishmawy reviews the evolution of the movement.
Matthew LoftusCultureEthicsEducation
I really wish this New Yorker profile of Karen Swallow Prior had been about three times as long, but it’ll have to do for now: The next morning, we shared a breakfast of scrambled eggs with some venison that Roy had […]
Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics
While there’s a lot more that could be said and a lot of things that could be said differently (as I hope to in a forthcoming essay for Mere-O), I appreciated this assessment from Timothy Shenk at Dissent of where things are […]
Matthew LoftusEthicsCriminal JusticedrugsHealth & Medicine
I found this interview with Alex Berenson, who just wrote a new book about the dangers of marijuana, very interesting and well-balanced: TMP: In your Times op-ed, you suggest that the ominous scholarly findings have been ignored thanks to legalization advocates […]