The Archive
Matthew LoftusArt
Just wanted to highlight my two favorite Advent records here. The first is Behold the Lamb of God, which tells the story of the Bible leading up to the birth of Jesus and traces the longing for a Savior from […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedBlogging
The 2018 Eliot Awards are now live with essays from theologians, essayists, and feature writers ranging across many different topics.
Matthew Loftus
This essay is D.L. Mayfield at her very best: If our front door had a screen, I would have banged it on my way out. But instead, I closed it quietly, although I could still hear my children whining to […]
Tim MiloschPoliticsFeatured
The 2011 Pew Research Center study, “Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Network Sites” is one of many evaluating the experience of the young on social media. Given ongoing concerns about the effects of social media on young people, the […]
Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine
This article on the work of Dr. Jerome Motto and the therapists carrying on his work today is fascinating: The most pivotal response was sent to Douglas Kreider, one of Motto’s researchers, by a study participant who lived in an […]
Guest WriterBibleFeatured
One need not adopt all the Marian dogmas of the Roman church to recognize that Mary has a larger role in the biblical story than many Protestants recognize.
Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEthicsEconomics
Years ago, when I first studied Isaiah 58, I found its call to honor the Sabbath mingled with the call to do away with violence and injustice odd. I suppose that I had grown up thinking of Sabbath-keeping as a […]
Matthew LoftusFamilyEthics
Judy Wu Dominick shares her story at Christianity Today about telling her husband that she had feelings for another man: Looking back, it’s not surprising it happened. I was in the midst of a major identity shift that was changing the […]
Brewer EberlyFeatured
Reformed Christians should have no difficulty with learning from and using concepts traditionally associated with virtue ethics.
Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEconomics
There are some very sharp insights in this interview with Pankaj Mishra in the LA Review of Books: “Liberal modernity,” you’ve argued, “has prepared the ground for its destruction” by unleashing forces that are “uncontrollable.” Have these forces contributed to […]
Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics
Shadi Hamid has a very interesting essay in American Affairs Journal about the possibilities of left populism and the “economics of meaning”: It might be tempting to say that Left populists simply need a “hero”; the Left, unlike the Right, […]
Guest WriterFeatured
Though he wrote nearly 100 years before him, the 19th century poet Arthur Clough shows many of the same traits we associate with T. S. Eliot.