The Archive
Jake MeadorFeaturedChurch
American Christianity's moral witness has been badly weakened at a time when we could provide a confused, fracturing world with a hopeful alternative.
Guest WriterFeatured
Wesley Hill reviews Ross Douthat's book "To Change the Church," arguing that Pope Francis's call to mercy is both admirable and potentially revolutionary.
Matthew Lee Anderson
Rev. Dr. Vern Poythress is professor of New Testament interpretation at Westminster Theological Seminary. He is also the author of the newly published Theophany: A Theology of God’s Appearing. He joins the show to discuss God’s appearances in Scripture, and […]
Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureEconomics
I love it when Eve Tushnet gets on her soapbox about poverty and virtue, and this great piece about the much-touted “success sequence” is no exception: The people I speak with believe they have a responsibility—there’s that word again—to achieve […]
Jake MeadorBook Reviews
Both of these things are true: I have spent my entire life in the church. I didn’t really know the traditional view of the doctrine of God until the last couple of years.
Matthew Loftus
D.L. Mayfield reflects on a recent podcast on missionaries that unfortunately gets stuck in the swamp of mockery and criticism without love.
Jake Meador
Jonathan Leeman's new book has much practical wisdom, but the underlying political imagination leaves something to be desired.
Jake Meador
Hospitality is place-making with the goal of serving others. Creating a place like that requires patience, time, and cultivating a number of skills.
Matthew LoftusPoliticsFeatured
The new synthetic morality fails precisely because it offers no account of personal formation, no means of shaping an individual person toward virtue.
Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine
Using an EMR while talking to patients is like texting while driving. There's got to be a better way.
Matthew Lee Anderson
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat joins Derek and Matt to discuss his new book, To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism. Douthat’s excellent new book explores the legacy of Pope Francis and the crisis within the Roman Catholic […]
Tessa CarmanBook Reviews
Plough's new anthology of Easter stories ably captures both the beauty of Easter and the surprising, even shocking, fact of Christ's resurrection.