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Jake MeadorFeaturedFormation

Longing and Hope in the Shadowlands

Christians should not be surprised by unexpected resurrection. We should see in such things a sign of the coming resurrection and a testament to God's love.

JF ArnoldMere Fidelity

Book Club: Confessions, Book VII

Matt, Alastair and Derek consider book 7 of Augustine's Confessions. If you like the show, please do leave us a review on iTunes. We are also available on

Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine

overselling the value of fistula surgery

It turns out that fistulas aren't always as easy to fix as we thought, and sometimes the surgical "success" data are manipulated.

Matthew Loftus

Wild Harbors, "Monument"

Rocking out with Wild Harbors and their new record.

Charlie ClarkFeaturedEconomics and Business

Let Us Now Praise Fractious Men: The Hillbilly as Economic Dissident

For all the outrage on the left over J. D. Vance's book, the economic visions of both the political left and Vance's technocrat elite are quite similar.

Matthew LoftusCulture

learning the tools that let you make your own tools

Alan Jacobs doesn’t want kids to learn to code. But he does think they should learn to build their own websites: To teach children how to own their own domains and make their own websites might seem a small thing. […]

Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

The Tedium of Worldview Analysis

Christians should be relentlessly serious people who care about truth wherever they find it. In contrast, Christian worldviewism wants only to win a debate.

Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureEconomics

what it costs our kids

Tara Ann Thieke describes the ugly side of childcare and the harms parents do to themselves and their children.

Brewer EberlyFeatured

The Good, True, and Beautiful and the Oscars

The problem with the Oscars is not that they value beauty over truth, but that their understanding of beauty is wrong.

JF ArnoldMere Fidelity

Mere Fidelity: Echoes of Exodus

Derek hosts a special episode of Mere Fidelity to talk about the new book from Alistair and Andrew. You can check out their new book here, if you're

Matthew LoftusFamily

the life of an expat parent

Rachel Pieh Jones describes the split-open feeling of raising children abroad.

Susannah Black RobertsFeatured

Movie Review: A Wrinkle in Time

If Christianity has been erased in the movie, the particular flavor of Madeleine L’Engle’s Christianity is in danger of being erased in the hot takes.