The Archive
Matthew Loftusandrewosenga
This year, I’m hoping to keep this blog more active with short posts about stories and essays I’ve been reading, but I also want to share more music. I love writing and listening to music and there’s a lot of […]
Jake Meador
Inazu's book offers a compelling case for the legal norms needed in a pluralistic society, but it isn't, as some have said, a hopeful alternative to Dreher.
Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism
Debates like the one prompted by Piper's comments are inevitable and irresolvable until we get better at institution building and dogmatic theology.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture War
So far the conservative response to the radtrads has ignored the most important point of the debate: Liberalism is very bad at producing liberals.
Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity
Mere Fidelity: Equality
Jake MeadorHistory
The outrage that followed First Things's publication of an essay on the Mortara affair has, sadly and predictably, focused on the wrong questions.
Joseph MinichFeaturedBlogging
The internet gives us many examples of folly. Two in particular are especially dangerous: the prophetic performer and the authenticity act.
Matthew LoftusFamilyFeaturedCurrent Politics
“This is a pro-life issue.” By now you have probably heard this sentiment expressed about any number of issues that are not immediately related to abortion. Food stamps, taxes, healthcare—even immigration!—are designated as “pro-life” causes because they may in some […]
Guest WriterPolitical Theology
Simon Kennedy and Ben Saunders argue that two kingdom theology deals with reality too neatly and is an inadequate answer to problems of political theology.
Jake Meador
If "The Last Jedi" has a weakness it's that too eagerly embraces a politics obsessed with power. But if that's a weakness it is hardly unique to this film.
Matthew Lee AndersonMere Fidelity
Mere Fidelity: The Virgin Birth
Jake MeadorFeatured
For the longest time one of my favorite year-end rituals has been combing through David Brooks’s Sydney Award winners for the year to find which ones I’d missed and to re-read favorites from earlier in the year.