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Paul Frank SpencerCultureMusic Reviews

Faithful Obedience Without Pragmatism: The Music of John Van Deusen

John Van Deusen's latest worship album will have something to challenge and maybe even frustrate any listener.

Amy MantravadiFamilyCultureFormation

Parenting an Autistic Child in 2025

If we lack a robust account of the goodness of human life itself, we will have very little to offer to parents of children on the autism spectrum.

Jake MeadorCultureFormation

Even Now, Faithful Presence

Times of chaos can make us question if ordinary Christian practices are sufficient. Yet the underlying facts of our situation are the same as ever.

Nadya WilliamsCulture

The Banality of Evil, 2025 Edition

Eichmann had to die because there are evils to which human cannot be reconciled. And those evils still sometimes happen in our own day.

Holly StockleyCultureTheology

Stewards of the Soil: Agrarian Life in a Calvinist Key

Though under-developed in our day, the Reformed tradition offers extensive resources to define and enrich agrarian life.

Jim WildemanFormation

The Least I Can Do

The small expressions we use without thought often convey far more than we first intended.

Casey ShuttTheologyFormation

Bari Weiss, Amanda Knox, and the Intrusion of Grace

Even when we don't recognize its source in Christianity, we all recognize and often need the power of grace.

Mitch EastFamilyCultureFormation

The Separation of Woman and Womb: A Warning

If we imagine some not unlikely future forms of biomedical tech we will quickly realize how inadequate much Christian thinking about bioethics has been.

Charles KimTheology

The Church Father Who Taught Wittgenstein About Language

Though he is rightly acclaimed for his theological work, St. Augustine of Hippo was in many ways a philosopher before he was a theologian.

Bob ThuneChurch

MAiD for Protestantism: A Reply to Brad East

If one wishes to save the patient that is historic Protestantism, it will require choosing to renew the tradition rather than despairing over its loss.

Daniel K. WilliamsCultureHistory

From Social Gospel to Contraception

The early 20th century saw dramatic transformations in how Mainline Protestantism thought about sexual ethics.

Mike SchrammTheology

The Prince is a Pauper: Christian Echoes from an Unlikely Source

Because the materials we use to make our stories come from God, even hardened materialists sometimes can't help echoing the Christian story.