The Archive
Daniel KunkelFormationChurch
For many churches, ministry now consists of exposure—podcast or perish—leaders feel obligated to maintain an online presence and publish their church’s conversion rate, baptism ratio, average weekly attendance, and annual earnings. After all, how are they to hear without Mailchimp?
Anna Catherine McGrawCulture
As a young adult you are told to expect so much from these years, but what do these years expect from us in turn? Things are not as they should be, the lights are going out—therefore, let us go on.
Vika PecherskyDaniel HummelJohn EhrettAmy MantravadiCultureAmerica 250
What do we mean when we say we love America? Do we love these people, 340 million strong? The light and dark ones, the old and young, the rich and poor, the sensible and wayward?
Jake MeadorAmerica 250Culture
I cannot think of other western nations that so reliably produce such remarkable and unruly saints as we seem to grow quite predictably in America.
Daniel K. WilliamsBook Reviews
Vance says a lot about his longing for virtue, but he doesn’t define virtue as an imitation of Jesus’s life. Instead, Vance’s focus is on developing the qualities that make him a loving husband and father.
TechnologyCharles Carman
One thing I have found more recently in not having a smart phone is this: there is a muscle group I've had to exercise which would have atrophied had I accepted the smart phone as critical for one's existence.
Hayden NesbitTechnologyFormation
Our very mode of life cuts our attempts at connecting off at the knees. In a digital age, our default posture is one of performance. If we are to move toward connection, we must relearn the purpose and art of conversation.
Daniel HindmanBibleTheology
If gender is an ordering principle in the creation of the cosmos, then we should expect it to also be an ordering principle within the re-creation of the cosmos.
Alastair RobertsTechnology
Rather than manifestations of human beings falling short of the vocations of speech and creation, we will be exposed to a myriad expressions of the non-human feigning humanity and of human beings outsourcing their human expression to the non-human.
Jake MeadorChurch
Being a genuinely national denomination creates challenges no one else faces. But the rewards are more than worth it.
Bill DavisBook Reviews
How do you care for an aging parent whose mental decline has caused significant changes to their sense of judgment?
Book ReviewsRalph Wood
A new study of O'Connor is flawed by its inexcusable indifference to matters theological.