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Cody BarnhartTheologyChurch

Against Theological Retrieval as Resource Gathering

The church, if it retrieves well, always retrieves against itself.

CultureKeith Page

The Fifteen Foot Skeleton Key

Our current shift is explained less by big trends and more by fifteen-foot inflatable ghosts. We are witnessing an inversion of civil religion.

Andrew TolkmithBooks

Keeping It Real: Eric Cyr’s 'Here It Snows in June'

Short stories of the variety given in 'Here It Snows in June' have a marked potential to convince people to pick up literature again.

Elizabeth SticeCultureEducation

Hiding in Plain Sight: the Potential of Christian Higher Education

While others seek to establish schools and centers for what they value, we have existing centers for Christian thought. We should support them as eagerly as today’s founders of centers for civic thought support theirs.

BooksCultureE. Wesley Reynolds, III

Russell Kirk’s Understanding of a Christian America

Kirk reinvigorates the spirit of America by giving us a way of life; or rather by reminding us of the way of life which we have been historically given by a sovereign and almighty Providence.

Film Reviews/HollywoodCultureJohn Matthews

The Trojan Horse in Nolan’s Odyssey: Christianity Hidden in Zeus’s Law

Nolan's conception of "Zeus's Law" is not something he took from the Greeks or that ancient Greeks would recognize. It is, rather, a deeply Christian idea.

BibleTechnologyCultureCorey Hastings

Exercising Dominion After Generative Artificial Intelligence

Generative artificial intelligence can sometimes seem to mimic the uniquely human work of exercising dominion over creation.

Joshua HeavinThe HeronBooksTheology

The Heron #3: New and Forthcoming Books on the Bible and Theology

On the means and ends of this column devoted to notable new and forthcoming books, see the introductory paragraphs of its first edition. Herons who stalk their prey are supremely

Ryan SinniEducationTechnologyWriting

Slaves or Sons? LLMs, Wisdom, and Writing Instruction

There is a humane solution to the problem of the struggling writer: one that involves fellowship not only in the “space of reasons,” but also, as it were, in the “space of love.”

CultureJake Meador

You Cannot Escape First Principles: The Right-Wing Leninism of National Conservatism

National conservatism reduces politics down to little more than "who, whom?" which was a Leninist idea before it was a dissident right idea.

CultureFormationMatthew Loftus

Aldous Huxley’s Delicious Moral Treats Emporium

If people keep stoking the fires of moral outrage, we are likely to see more murders like Brian Thompson’s before the close of the decade.

Eddie LaRowCulture

Lincoln's Constitutionalism

If anyone would be, surely Lincoln could be justified in thinking our constitutional order had failed. But he did not. Instead, he responded to national crisis by doubling down on the Constitution.