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Hayden NesbitChurchFormation

How the Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Ten Commandments Ground Spiritual Formation and Soul Care

The Apostle's Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Decalogue can help us to understand both what we are and what we might become.

Eric McLaughlinCulture

Who Is Rich and Who Is Poor?

Having an accurate idea of who is rich and who is poor, relatively speaking, can help us better understand the Christian call to generosity.

Nadya WilliamsFamilyCulture

In This House of Death: What Does Sanctity of Human Life Month Mean in 2026?

Abigail Favale's new novel suggests a vision of what the sanctity of life means in a society that has lost all regard for it.

Miles SmithCulture

You can't clear cut political society.

If our political society is like a forest, then attempts to clear cut it will do to us what they do to forests: leave them poorer and sicker.

James WoodFormation

Suffering as Spiritual Formation

When spiritual formation comes up we think of scripture reading or prayer or a rule of life. But the suffering we don't choose can be enormously formative.

Jake MeadorCulture

On Communicating Truth, Goodness, and Beauty

Learning to compelling convey truth and beauty is not an ability we simply acquire in a rote way; it is a capacity that is cultivated over a lifetime.

Wyatt GrahamTechnologyFormation

When We Become the Product: Heidegger, Han, and Digital Enframing

Digital technology orders the world and ourselves as resources ready for market, a process Heidegger calls enframing and Han traces into the digital age.

David J. ChamberlinCultureChurchFormation

A Framework for Faithful Ministry Leadership

Retired US Navy Vice Admiral John Scott Redd developed a framework for defining virtuous leadership which can apply in a variety of settings.

A. A. KostasFormation

Tramping Out of Dante's Hell

Instead of focusing on what is wrong and distasteful about our world, focus on what you want your life to be about and move doggedly in that direction.

Matthew CaponeCultureRacial ReconciliationHistory

The Christian Achievement of Martin Luther King Jr.

King remained tethered to a Christian understanding of non-violence and human dignity. This produced a distinctively Christian political strategy.

Andrew KoperskiCulture

Why Populism is a Problem for the Intellectual Right

Populism break things. So while it lacks the political capital to reform mainstream higher ed, it does have the power to mangle the Intellectual Right.

Eddie LaRowCultureFormation

The Rise of the Skilled (and Lonely) Consumer

Cultivating friendship with others in a society set for loneliness requires deliberate choosing and commitment and even sacrifice.