The Archive

Every essay.

Rhys LavertyBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025

After the Machine

Could a critical mass of people opt out of the machine and pursue more humane ways of life? In principal, certainly. In practice? That remains to be seen.

Jake MeadorCultureJournalFall 2025

Four Types of Christian Cultural Engagement

The work of cultural renewal will not come about through populism, separatism, or revanchism, but only through a principled commitment to healthy reform.

Leah Libresco SargeantBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025

Leah Sargeant Replies

Leah Sargeant replies to Agnes Howard, Rachel Aldhizer, and Nadya Williams's reflections on her new book 'The Dignity of Dependence.'

Nadya WilliamsBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025

What Has War to Do with Motherhood?

We cannot take the value and the beauty of this vulnerability for granted. Sargeant’s book makes no sense outside the Judaeo-Christian worldview.

Rachel Roth AldhizerBook ReviewsFormationJournalFall 2025

The Presence of Christ in Our Dependence

Dependence has a language. Need has a way of speaking to us and calling for help, even when it cannot do so with words.

Agnes HowardBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025

Dependent in the First Place

Americans prefer to think of dependence as a preparatory step before we turn into what we really are—autonomous self-makers. Sargeant skewers this folly.

Ted EslerTheologyJournalGlobalFall 2025

The Deconstruction of Evangelical Missions

The impulse to foreign missions that has grounded and shaped American evangelicalism for a century is now under attack from many sides.

Bonnie KristianBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025

Leftists Should Be Christian

Christman's provocative title makes some good arguments, but is burdened by sloppy argumentation and poor engagement with its sources.

Paul J. PastorPoetryJournalFall 2025

A Burning Spear: Poetry and the Rebellion of Small, Good Things

In rebelling against our unpoetic age we are building a defense for the human soul.

Kyle WilliamsBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025

Tall Tales of Abundance

Their ability to describe material problems is immense, yet Klein and Thompson routinely struggle to arrive at deeper political wisdom.

Justin HawkinsBook ReviewsJournalFall 2025

Joys That Only Saints Can Know

Leppin's biography of St Francis admirably complicates the life of the great saint, but sometimes in ways that still look a lot like debunking.

Pieter ValkFamilyFormation

Discernment, Angst, and Vocational Celibacy

Asking God for aid in discerning whether one is called to marriage or celibacy might help calm anxiety and give direction to an anxious generation.