The Archive

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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.

Gerald McDermottBibleTheology

Tucker Carlson, American Conservatism, and Christian Heresy

As anti-semitism rises in America, Christians would do well to exercise great care in how they speak about the relationship between Israel and the church.

Matthew WilcoxenChurch

How to Reform the Anglican Church in North America

The ACNA is in need of institutional reform. This is one proposal for how that reform might be implemented.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

Child of These Tears

Suffering—bodily and spiritual—is the thread connecting all persons and events in this book. How do we face great suffering that upheaves our lives?

Kirsten SandersBook Reviews

The Magpie No. 1: Inventing Purity Culture

Shopping for a homecoming dress for my daughter made me long for the restrictions of purity culture, which at least left me with my own boundaries intact.

Kirsten SandersBook Reviews

The Magpie No. 1: Inventing Purity Culture

Shopping for a homecoming dress for my daughter made me long for the restrictions of purity culture, which at least left me with my own boundaries intact.

Jake MeadorCulture

Mapping the Political Moment

The post-Trump political moment will be defined by whether or not we can avoid collapsing into competing versions of arbitrary power.

Alastair HerdTechnologyFormation

The Dignity of Ordinary Work: What Cain and Abel Reveal About Modern Alienation

There is dignity to be found in ordinary work--even work that many of our peers deride as meaningless or worse.

Dominick BaruffiCulture

Why Superman Endures

Superman's popularity comes from the fact that he is an image of what Lewis called the 'tao,' of loyalty to a kind of natural goodness under the law.

Amy MantravadiBook Reviews

The Case for Bringing Back Verse Plays

Though barely attempted today, plays written in verse were once quite common. J. C. Scharl's latest is a triumph for the genre and a joy to read.