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ChurchBooksAdriel Sanchez

Why We Worship: The Battlefield of Praise

Make no mistake about it—worship is warfare. Not the kind of warfare that puts people in captivity, but the kind of warfare that sets them free.

FamilyGenderNadya Williams

Sex-Realist Feminism and Christianity: A Report from the Fairer Disputations Conference

The convention turned out to be something that showed a real possibility of scaling up intellectually honest and deep conversations about gender in our world.

CultureEducationTechnologyScott Cunningham

Using Political Power to Protect Students from Using AI in Education

Florida's bill could be a model for other states seeking to preserve space for students to learn for themselves rather than outsourcing their minds to generative AI technologies.

Jake MeadorTechnologyAbout Mere OrthodoxyWriting

A Writer's Covenant and Mere Orthodoxy's New Contributors

Mere Orthodoxy's contributing writers will help us continue to present Christian ideas in fresh, creative, and original ways to challenge, correct, and form modern people toward Christ.

BooksTheologyBibleJoshua Heavin

How the Reformers Actually Read St Paul

Anyone who wants to understand what the Reformers themselves actually believed about union with Christ, justification, and much else cannot do better than to take up this volume. 

FormationTheologyBooksDrake Osborn

Loving God for the Sake of God

If the church is to be a place of “joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,” then her members, pastors, and leaders must learn the joy of being amazed by God and his glory in the created world.

TheologyCultureJoseph Lear

Shopping the End-times Marketplace: The Problems of Progress and Delay in a Hopeless World

What happens when the future we've been hoping for never arrives?

TheologyChristopher Woznicki

“When I Survey the Awesome and Wondrous Cross”: The Inner Life of an Atonement Theologian

A theologian should never treat atonement in a neutral-disinterested manner. A theologian should write and teach out of a sense of awe and wonder about the cross.

EducationFormationElizabeth Stice

The Good and Goods of a Christian Liberal Arts Education

While across the country, K-12 classical education is on the rise, Christian colleges are not fully capitalizing on the opportunity presented. It is almost as though we have lost faith in what it is we do best.

Abbey von GohrenBooksFamilyTheology

Images of Divine Love in the Love of a Mother

A conversation with Elizabeth Berget about the ways in which the love of a mother for her child mirrors and illuminates the love of God for his people and for the world

Benjamin PetersonFilm Reviews/HollywoodTheology

The Odyssey of Dr. Richard Kimble

A single-season TV series from the early 2000s has much to teach us about fortitude and mercy in a world of tragedy.

J. V. FeskoTheologyBooks

Defending the Faith Like the Apostle Paul

While one can fire verbal projectiles from a distance at the critics of Christianity, how effective is such an apologetic approach?