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Guest WriterFeaturedEvangelicalismFormation
Reformed theology provides pastors with the resources to help address trauma, which is what makes those churches struggles to address it well so sad.
Jake MeadorFeatured
Before it is anything else, Rod Dreher's "The Benedict Option" is a handbook for Christians attempting to live out their faith in a post-Christian world.
Matthew LoftusCultureandycrouch
Andy Crouch is on a podcast spree hitting on important topics like race, power, and culture making.
Brad EastFeaturedHistoryEvangelicalism
The current Benedict Option debate has its roots in academic debates of the early 1980s and, as such, vindicates Hunter's argument in "To Change the World."
Jake MeadorFeaturedHistoryCulture War
The problems that Rod Dreher, Archbishop Chaput, Drs. R. R. Reno and Anthony Esolen raise in their books aren't new and their concerns are quite reasonable.
Jake MeadorBook Reviews
Anthony Esolen's punchy book is valuable because the imaginative Esolen does a marvelous job of depicting the good and helping his readers to desire it.
Matthew LoftusHealth & Medicine
What if addiction is a spiritual power, a hole between our brains and a demonic nether world?
E. J. HutchinsonFamilyFeatured
Ultimately the fifth commandment is concerned with teaching us to be grateful for the order into which we are born and to submit to that order happily.
Samuel JamesFeaturedCollege and University
The violent student protests at Middlebury College are a powerful reminder of one of our moment's pressing need: an active theology of human dignity.
Jake MeadorPoliticsHistoryEvangelicalism
The electoral success of the Republican party has convinced some that evangelicalism is still culturally ascendant. That idea is almost entirely mistaken.
Jake MeadorFeaturedEvangelicalismFormation
Alastair Roberts and Jake Meador discuss how modern individualism shapes and distorts our experience of Lent.
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