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Cate MacDonaldFormation

On Leaving Home: Vocation, Eternity, and Texas

What prompts us to leave home? In light of eternity, only a sense of vocation and calling and work will prompt us to move.

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitical Theologypeter leithartrevelationdefending constantine

Between Babel and Beast: Reviewing Peter Leithart's Political Theology (Pt. 1)

Between Babel and Beast is Peter Leithart's political theology that develops his work in Defending Constantine. Part one of our review.

Matthew Lee Andersonc.s. lewisSexualitySemanticsJared Wilson

Sex, Submission, and Evangelicals: Doug Wilson's Controversial Words

What has sex to do with submission? Unpacking Doug Wilson's controversial remarks about sex and how evangelicals relate to it.

Chris KrychoArtMusicGüngörEvangelicalism

Evangelical Tracts and Real Art: Gungor and Creation's Goodness

Evanglicals struggle with art. But Gungor's Ghosts upon the Earth points toward creation's goodness and so shows a way forward.

L. M. SacasasTechnologyMarshall McLuhan

What makes the edifi "Christian?" On Media, Habits, and Christian Virtue

The edifi claims to be a "Christian tablet." But what makes a technology Christian? Marshall McLuhan and others step in to help.

Matthew Lee AndersonTheology and PracticeLiberal ChristianityRoss Douthatchristianity

The Dim Future for Liberal Protestantism: Douthat and O'Donovan Together

Ross Douthat questioned whether liberal Protestantism could survive. We bring in Oliver O'Donovan as a dialogue partner to the discussion.

Matthew Lee AndersonFormation

The Trouble with Talking about our "Identity in Christ"

When Christians talk about "identity in Christ," what do they mean? Is it a positive theological concept, or a negative one?

Ben Simpson

Every Foreign Land their Fatherland, Yet Every Fatherland a Foreign Land

Right and left meet at the cross: Love of nation is not necessarily a bad thing, so long as we maintain a unique identity under the cross

Graedon ZorziTheologyEthicsvirtuechristianityFormation

Desiderius Erasmus and “It wasn’t me, it was God”

It's time to reconsider the phrase, “It wasn’t me. It was God.” The phrase carries within it an inadequate account of humility.

Matthew Lee AndersonEarthen Vessels

The Torching of Earthen Vessels: A Reply to Frank Turk

Matthew Lee Anderson responds to Frank Turk's review of Earthen Vessels.

Matt Miller

Ray Bradbury, J.R. R. Tolkien, and the Benefits of Nostalgia

Tolkien was a British, Catholic, Oxford professor; Bradbury was an American, vaguely Buddhist, self-educated writer.

Guest Writerembodiment

"You Don't Have a Soul": C.S. Lewis Never Said It

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." -C.S. Lewis never said this (and it's probably not right).