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Jeremy MannEconomics and Business

Social Justice Reconsidered: Report from the Philadelphia Society

Social justice was recently reconsidered by the Philadelphia Society. Here are a few lessons from their meeting.

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

Come Read Orthodoxy with Trevin Wax and Me

Orthodoxy is an important book and Matthew Lee Anderson and Trevin Wax are inviting you to read through it with them.

Jason Hood

Imitating God in Christ: Recapturing A Biblical Pattern

Imitating God in Christ: Recapturing a Biblical Pattern by Jason B. Hood is available now!

Jake MeadorEvangelicalism

Speaking Prophetically to the Church or Publicly Criticizing the Church?

There's a sharp difference between speaking prophetically to the church and standing outside the church and making public criticisms.

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

Readers Write about the Book: On Understanding and Apologetics

The End of our Exploring is a book that highlights the primacy of understanding, rather than apologetics, within the Christian life.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalism

The Rise of the Chicken Little Evangelical Blogger

The "Christianity Must Change or Die" meme is back. And with it come a group of Chicken Little evangelical bloggers convinced that evangelicalism is dying.

Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalismchristianity

Five Fundamental Questions Conservative Evangelicals Must Address

Conservative evangelicals face a crisis of confidence. Here are five fundamental questions that they must answer to improve their witness.

Cate MacDonaldEducation

The Quick and the Dead

Questioning is a form of desire. Jonathan Mueller of The Academy at Houston Baptist University explains.

Jake MeadorEducationCulture

Short-term Missions Trips and Cultural Institutions

What would happen if money from short-term missions trips were diverted toward under-funded local Christian institutions?

Cate MacDonaldEducation

The Surprising Similarities Between First Dates and Bad Textbooks

Bad dates and textbooks have a lot in common, namely, bad questions. David Gilbert of The Academy at Houston Baptist University explains.

Matthew Lee Andersonchristianity todayradical chrisitanityrichard stearnesFormation

The Ordinary is not Comfortable: Richard Stearns' "Radical" Misreading

The ordinary and comfortable are not equivalent. Radical Christianity thrives by conflating them in unhelpful ways.

Cate MacDonaldFormation

On Kids and Questions

Kids and questions go together. Cate MacDonald reflects on the questioning life in light of her work with high schoolers.