The Archive
Derek RishmawyPCA Next Generation ForumChurchCulture
What the next generation needs is not our ability to catch a vibe, a wave, a revival, or a trend. Vibes shift and shift again. What they need is our continued commitment to ministering, yes, in culturally wise ways, but more fundamentally out of a bedrock of biblical conviction.
TechnologyChristine AgarwalFormation
What do we do to avoid becoming people who want all the ease, speed, and information without any of the work to get it?
Casey SpinksCulture
The very words of the Declaration already demand something like a faith commitment, both in the founders who signed it and the “one people” the Declaration claims is America itself.
Jake MeadorCultureFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Near the end of his essay on poetry and marriage Wendell Berry considers how free verse fits into his broader consideration of the relationship between fixed poetic forms and fixed
Daniel BennettMatthew LoftusKatelyn Walls SheltonSamuel JamesJohn SheltonAmerica 250
Ours is not a heritage of blood, nor of soil. Our heritage is one of the noblest ideas in the history of mankind, “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Daniel K. WilliamsAmerica 250
Jefferson did not “live out the full meaning of [his] creed.” But he understood that when he declared that “all men are created equal,” he could never be fully comfortable with slavery again. He had set in motion an egalitarian revolution that is still ongoing.
Miles SmithEddie LaRowDaniel K. WilliamsNadya WilliamsAmerica 250
For together we are Americans; divided we are merely another power doomed to the shipwrecked seas of history. As a Christian, I am thankful that the Divine Will—the Sovereign Hand of God—is at work upholding and sustaining.
Daniel KunkelFormationChurch
For many churches, ministry now consists of exposure—podcast or perish—leaders feel obligated to maintain an online presence and publish their church’s conversion rate, baptism ratio, average weekly attendance, and annual earnings. After all, how are they to hear without Mailchimp?
Anna Catherine McGrawCulture
As a young adult you are told to expect so much from these years, but what do these years expect from us in turn? Things are not as they should be, the lights are going out—therefore, let us go on.
Vika PecherskyDaniel HummelJohn EhrettAmy MantravadiCultureAmerica 250
What do we mean when we say we love America? Do we love these people, 340 million strong? The light and dark ones, the old and young, the rich and poor, the sensible and wayward?
Jake MeadorAmerica 250Culture
I cannot think of other western nations that so reliably produce such remarkable and unruly saints as we seem to grow quite predictably in America.
Daniel K. WilliamsBook Reviews
Vance says a lot about his longing for virtue, but he doesn’t define virtue as an imitation of Jesus’s life. Instead, Vance’s focus is on developing the qualities that make him a loving husband and father.