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TheologyCultureJoseph Lear

Shopping the End-times Marketplace: The Problems of Progress and Delay in a Hopeless World

What happens when the future we've been hoping for never arrives?

TheologyChristopher Woznicki

“When I Survey the Awesome and Wondrous Cross”: The Inner Life of an Atonement Theologian

A theologian should never treat atonement in a neutral-disinterested manner. A theologian should write and teach out of a sense of awe and wonder about the cross.

EducationFormationElizabeth Stice

The Good and Goods of a Christian Liberal Arts Education

While across the country, K-12 classical education is on the rise, Christian colleges are not fully capitalizing on the opportunity presented. It is almost as though we have lost faith in what it is we do best.

Abbey von GohrenBooksFamilyTheology

Images of Divine Love in the Love of a Mother

A conversation with Elizabeth Berget about the ways in which the love of a mother for her child mirrors and illuminates the love of God for his people and for the world

Benjamin PetersonFilm Reviews/HollywoodTheology

The Odyssey of Dr. Richard Kimble

A single-season TV series from the early 2000s has much to teach us about fortitude and mercy in a world of tragedy.

J. V. FeskoTheologyBooks

Defending the Faith Like the Apostle Paul

While one can fire verbal projectiles from a distance at the critics of Christianity, how effective is such an apologetic approach?

CultureFormationAmy Mantravadi

Gluttony in the Age of GLP-1s

The Christian is free to use a GLP-1 or not use one, depending on his or her specific health situation, but the Christian is never free to stop desiring.

Anna HeetderksCulture

After 'Values'

Values have their rightful place— they can help clarify priorities, envisage a desired end state, and motivate righteous action— but they cannot be the foundation of a moral life. 

Nadya WilliamsBooksJournalSummer 2026FamilySexuality

Cultivating a Well-Ordered Anthropology in a Dehumanizing World

We’re today’s Roman emperors, declaring ourselves gods. It’s going about as well for us as it did for folks like Nero.

Daniel KunkelChurch

Father Mychal Judge: Honoring 9/11’s First Officially Recorded Casualty, 25 Years Later

When I see Father Judge dressed in his chaplain’s gear, inside the North Tower, praying without ceasing, I see a pastor with his people, suffering with and for them.

ObituaryFormationElizabeth SticeFamily

Delicious Life

What does it mean to “taste and see that the Lord is good?” It may be reflected in dying like my grandmother, without a bitter taste in the mouth.

Tessa CarmanJournalSummer 2026FamilyCultureBooks

Homeschooling Is More Normal Than You Think

Homeschooling matters because by its very nature—in all its non-standardized, messy, unwieldy glory—it is a movement against the professionalization, standardization, and replacement of the human being.