The Archive

Every essay.

Kirsten SandersBook Reviews

We Have Never Been Woke: One Year Later

By transforming 'awareness of the vulnerable' into valuable symbolic capital, wokeness served the rich while offering nothing to the actually vulnerable.

Josh PaulingTheologyTechnology

Why We Need Christian Anthropology and Epistemology in the Age of LLMs

We need a positive account of personhood and not merely a humanity of the gaps if we are to retain our humanity in the coming technological era.

Samuel C HeardTechnology

Wendell Berry's Unanswered Question

Behind the issue of AI-based technology replacing human workers is a basic question of why people should work in the first place.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

The Pastor Who Rescued Jews

Though forgotten today, Andre Trocme's memoirs tell the story of great courage that was founded on the simplicity of Christian obedience.

Nadya WilliamsTheology

The Authority of the Septuagint: An Interview with Greg Lanier and William Ross

The creation and reception of the Septuagint raises a host of interesting theological questions.

Joshua HeavinFormation

Character in Absurd Times

The greatest test of our character quite often is what we are willing or able to do when all hope seems lost.

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.