The Archive

Every essay.

Hannah Miller KingBook Reviews

The Prophetic Practice of Joy

Christianity forbids us from diminishing sin’s gravity or effects. We are compelled to grieve. But we have reason to rejoice because rescue has come.

Elizabeth SticeFamily

The Goodness of Caring for Other People's Children

Raising virtuous and mature people requires an immense amount of work—and when that work can be shared amongst trusted friends everyone is helped.

Hayden NesbitTechnologyChurch

The Mad Farmer on Claude, AI, and the Church

The church is the community of contrariness in the world, not because it is anti-technology, but because it is pro-unpredictable mystery

Nadya WilliamsFamily

Marriage, Family, and the Intellectual Life: Charles and Tessa Carman

We were made to seek wisdom together. Books keep alive that wisdom for generations. We’re called to keep the flame alive, and become flame ourselves.

Trevin WaxChurchEvangelismGlobal

Should We Prioritize Evangelism in Missions?

Obviously the proclamation and advance of the Gospel brings about social change, but it is still right and good to prioritize evangelism.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

Paul, Apostle of Grace: An Interview with Frank Thielman

Beeson Divinity School professor Frank Thielman discusses his new book on St Paul, which is a kind of theological biography of the apostle.

Sandip ChauhanChurch

Banyan Church

Growth is a sign of life. The question is what kind of growth preserves life rather than stretching it to the point of fracture.

Hayden NesbitChurchFormation

Formed by Song: How Music Shapes the Christian Life

Throughout church history the great teachers of the faith have commended music to us as a vehicle for living the Christian life.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

The Strange Saints of A. Muia’s Desert Between Two Seas

A recent award-winning novel tells the story of two modern-day desert saints.

Adam FinkneyChurchFormation

Tradition Didn’t Kill My Faith. Amnesia Almost Did.

I didn’t lose my faith because Christianity asked too much of me. I nearly lost it because it asked too little.

Jake MeadorCultureChurchBook ReviewsFormation

Liturgies of the Wild and Non-Expressivist Religion

If you want people to be bewildered by church, then church needs to be weird in some way.

David HenrecksonEducationFormation

Moral and Spiritual Hunger in the Classroom

If I’m upfront about my commitments, and offer an invitation to interrogate their commitments in light of our texts, the 'problem' of pluralism evaporates.