The Archive

Every essay.

Agnes HowardBooksJournalFall 2025

Dependent in the First Place

Americans prefer to think of dependence as a preparatory step before we turn into what we really are—autonomous self-makers. Sargeant skewers this folly.

Ted EslerTheologyJournalGlobalFall 2025

The Deconstruction of Evangelical Missions

The impulse to foreign missions that has grounded and shaped American evangelicalism for a century is now under attack from many sides.

Bonnie KristianBooksJournalFall 2025

Leftists Should Be Christian

Christman's provocative title makes some good arguments, but is burdened by sloppy argumentation and poor engagement with its sources.

Paul J. PastorPoetryJournalFall 2025

A Burning Spear: Poetry and the Rebellion of Small, Good Things

In rebelling against our unpoetic age we are building a defense for the human soul.

Kyle WilliamsBooksJournalFall 2025

Tall Tales of Abundance

Their ability to describe material problems is immense, yet Klein and Thompson routinely struggle to arrive at deeper political wisdom.

Justin HawkinsBooksJournalFall 2025

Joys That Only Saints Can Know

Leppin's biography of St Francis admirably complicates the life of the great saint, but sometimes in ways that still look a lot like debunking.

Pieter ValkFamilyFormation

Discernment, Angst, and Vocational Celibacy

Asking God for aid in discerning whether one is called to marriage or celibacy might help calm anxiety and give direction to an anxious generation.

Gerald McDermottBibleTheology

Tucker Carlson, American Conservatism, and Christian Heresy

As anti-semitism rises in America, Christians would do well to exercise great care in how they speak about the relationship between Israel and the church.

Matthew WilcoxenChurch

How to Reform the Anglican Church in North America

The ACNA is in need of institutional reform. This is one proposal for how that reform might be implemented.

Nadya WilliamsBooks

Child of These Tears

Suffering—bodily and spiritual—is the thread connecting all persons and events in this book. How do we face great suffering that upheaves our lives?

Kirsten SandersBooks

The Magpie No. 1: Inventing Purity Culture

Shopping for a homecoming dress for my daughter made me long for the restrictions of purity culture, which at least left me with my own boundaries intact.

Jake MeadorCulture

Mapping the Political Moment

The post-Trump political moment will be defined by whether or not we can avoid collapsing into competing versions of arbitrary power.