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Jake MeadorFeatured
Alan Noble's new book succeeds at being both a description of the world as we experience it and a set of proposals for how Christians should respond.
Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity
Mere Fidelity: Confessions, Book 11 (on time and the Christian Life)
Matthew Loftus
Having lived around a lot of vacant lots in Baltimore and seen many that were tinkered with and then abandoned again, this story from Andrea Appleton about a researcher trying to find what grows best, absorbs toxins, and retains stormwater […]
Matthew LoftusCultureHistoryEthicsEconomics
I very much look forward to reading Kyle Edward Williams’ thesis on corporate social responsibility whenever it comes out. For now, he’s got a great piece in the Washington Post on Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s plan to bring responsibility back to corporate […]
Jake MeadorChurch
The reporting is clear that Cardinal McCarrick sexually harassed young men. So why do so many in the church and the media keep lying about it?
Matthew LoftusEducation
Micah Meadowcroft sounds a refrain that we can’t hear often enough: The glory of reading is its capacity to make us more ourselves, as we learn with minimal mediation how to pay attention and integrate within our own minds the […]
Matthew LoftusEthics
I like Carl Ellis’ take on the four-paned window of Biblical righteousness: If we pair these dimensions in all possible combinations, we get four manifestations of righteousness: personal piety, social piety, personal justice, and social justice. This can be illustrated by the […]
Guest WriterFeaturedChurch
Many of the problems currently afflicting evangelicalism circle back in one way or another to questions of power, accountability, and institutional life.
Matthew Loftus
You should always read Comment and you should always read Alan Jacobs, but you should especially always read Alan Jacobs in Comment: This essay has been, I hope it is now clear, a series of stories of evasion. Human beings wish to believe […]
Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics
Jeffrey Bilbro has an excellent essay ruminating on the question of GMOs in the New Jerusalem, inspired by Abigail Murrish’s thoughts at Christianity Today on the same. Here’s Murrish: if the New Jerusalem will have as-yet-unseen cultural diversity—the best of what […]
Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine
An appeal for funding to support African doctors who want to bless their communities
Matthew LoftusCultureHistory
How can you not love an essay like this? Clare Coffey is a delight to read: That the movements of the human mind, its bent for narrative and order, might correspond to something real besides raw evolutionary fitness simply does […]