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Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalism

Three Notes on Women Professors and Seminary

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

Liberalism and Personal Formation

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

And we are off and running! In our first show of the year, Derek, Alastair and Matt consider its theological dimensions and social uses of 'equality.' G If

Jake MeadorHistory

Notes on Edgardo Montara from a Protestant Onlooker

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

Prophetic Performers, Authenticity Acts, and the Need for Wisdom

The internet gives us many examples of folly. Two in particular are especially dangerous: the prophetic performer and the authenticity act.

Matthew LoftusFamilyFeaturedCurrent Politics

If Anything Is Pro-Life, Nothing Is

“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

The Problems Two Kingdoms Don't Solve

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

The Politics of the Last Jedi

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

In their final episode of the year, the whole cast considers the theological significance of the Virgin Birth. Thanks to all of you who have listened, commented, and contributed to

Jake MeadorFeatured

The 2017 Eliot Awards

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.

Chris KrychoFeaturedEpistemologyAnthropology

Faithful Extension and the Question of Human Origins

The questions the church confronts most severely at present are questions of theological anthropology—so human origins and the doctrine of the Fall matter.

Guest WriterFeatured

Twenty-Five “Non-Christian” Books Published This Year That Christians Should Read

By Brad Vermurlen Around this time each year, many of the pastors and seminary professors I’m connected to on social media post their top ten books of the year. Inevitably, most of the books they select are religiously committed books […]