The Archive

Every essay.

Kirsten SandersBook Reviews

The Genetics of Vice

Though she has stumbled exactly onto the Christian question, unfortunately, Harden hasn’t given enough credit to the Christian answer.

Elizabeth SticeBook Reviews

All the Way Home

In most books about loneliness, we receive recommendations for restoring institutions and communities. Yet Corbin looks beyond church membership and bowling leagues, to virtuous friendship and primordial experiences.

Jake AdkinsFilm Reviews/HollywoodCulture

Remythologizing the Myths: Christopher Nolan's Odyssey and the Fractures in a Secular Age

Notes on Homer, Christopher Nolan, Kevin Vanhoozer, and how the flat world built by a century of demythologizing is generating its own dissatisfaction

Thomas D. HowesJames M. PattersonBook Reviews

What Is Old Is the New World Order Again

We do not wish to see postliberal regimes come into being because we wish to see people live full lives both materially and spiritually, something we show that postliberalism cannot offer.

Jake MeadorChurchCulture

Is the Era of Mere Christianity Over?

We may be entering an era marked by the continued decline of denominationalism alongside an increase in theological factionalism.

Tessa CarmanBook ReviewsCulture

Does Christian Fiction Exist?

There is only one plot: the Scheme of Redemption. All other plots, if they are any good, are splinters off this basic plot.

Joshua HeavinCultureHealth & Medicine

No Last Rites for MAiD

Medical Assistance in Dying is opposed by people of sound conscience for many reasons. Matthew Loftus capably distinguishes between allowing people to die and killing them. Jonathan von Maren notes

Brian AutenBook Reviews

Understanding the Origins of the Dissident Right

Sunshine's 'Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism' clearly establishes that the counterculture of the "long 1960s" is not merely a left-wing or so-called "cultural Marxist" story, but that its appropriation and its impact is also discerned on the political right.

Nadya WilliamsFormationBook ReviewsEducationFamily

Classical Education is for Everyone

Prioritizing an education in the virtues, therefore, is a political exercise of supreme importance for the wellbeing of any state. Classical Christian education today certainly aims to recover this mission—thus the emphasis in the book’s title on “the American Mind.”

Marc SimsFilm Reviews/Hollywood

Nothing Remains

In a world that has flushed metaphysics down the toilet, the only “real” thing we have is our experience, our feelings. And if we fail to find salvation within, if we “open the window” and find not light, but darkness, then nothing remains.

Robert HaslerPCA Next Generation ForumChurch

Antifragile Ministry

Psalm 11 doesn’t besmirch utilitarian motivations for seeking refuge in God. It just won’t let you stop there. It directs us past the desire for earthly safety to the ultimate telos of life: the beatific vision, to see our God and Maker face to face, without a veil, and to enjoy him forever.

Sarah ReardonFormation

Rest Is Not a Thing to be Bought, but Received

How we talk about our lives and desires is telling. Our speech about vacations and retreats reveals that Americans both in and outside of the church have accepted a particular mindset about work, life, and time