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Jake Meador
When relationships are ephemeral and optional, disagreements dominate. When they are anchored in something tangible, principled compromise becomes possible.
Jake MeadorFeatured
Deneen's critics who focus on policy questions are missing the point of Deneen's book, which is that the world responsible for those policies is failing.
Jake MeadorEconomics
The Guardian's story on financial fraud on Instagram is about way more than just technology and finance; it's about poverty, loneliness, and desperation.
Matthew LoftusFamilyHealth & Medicine
Black mothers & their children die at higher rates than their white counterparts, even when controlling for income and education. What can be done?
Brandon McGinleyPoliticsFeatured
If we think "hospitality" means "entertaining" and "serving gourmet meals in an immaculately clean house," we'll probably never practice actual hospitality.
Matthew LoftusCulture
There is so much here in this long essay about the controversial Pentecostal preachers of Haiti and the traditional Vodou practices: I asked [the pastor] whether he had founded Shalom to combat Vodou in the country, and he shook his […]
Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine
Everybody thinks performance improvement for doctors. The problem is deciding what you're going to measure.
Guest WriterFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism
When Paul wrote to the Corinthians on discipline and sexual sin he was writing to people who lived in a world that was in many ways like our own.
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 […]