The Archive
Tara ThiekeFeaturedJournalJournal 2
Ellen Wayland-Smith. The Angel in the Marketplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 288pp, $30. Throughout the 2010s the signs of a new holy month became undeniable. Each June seemed to mark an exponential increase in rainbow flags. Early summer […]
Vika PecherskyFeaturedJournalJournal 2
The question I dislike the most is, “Where are you from?” My Eastern-European accent usually gives away the fact that I am not, should I say, local. Now that I live on the East Coast, I am often tempted to […]
Bryan BaiseFeaturedCulture
A significant amount of chatter has occupied social media about masculinity, manhood, and why men, both young and old, seem to shy away from these concepts. And just like the platforms from which these discussions arose, there are as many […]
Seth TrouttGender
A healthy account of masculinity has to emphasize humility, discipline, responsibility, and strength.
Joshua HeavinFeaturedChurchEvangelicalismFormation
In recent years it has become increasingly popular for churches of differing sizes, locations, and denominational traditions to make use of consultant services to find new ministers and staff for Christian institutions. If you browse the denominational job boards of […]
Ana SiljakTechnology
Whatever we create will be subject to error and entropy. And deifying imperfection and impermanence simply, and inevitably, leads to disappointment.
Matthew Lee AndersonFormation
Misshapen desires are self-defeating, and so will eventually bring us to tears.
Stiven PeterEvangelicalismCulture WarBooks
The Great Dechurching isn't primarily driven by the culture war. It's driven by the radical absence of the church in the day to day lives of people.
John SheltonTheology
Gregory of Nazianzus warned us centuries ago that the study of theology is not for everyone. Recent trends in academic theology are proving him right.
Susannah Black RobertsHistoryLiterature
The world that vitalists nostalgic for the Bronze Age wish to recover was waiting for something: longing for something more than a brief, passing glory.
Jake MeadorHistoryChurch
The problems facing the church at the dawn of America's fourth republic are unlike those that have confronted her at earlier moments in American history.
William E. Boyce and K. J. DrakeBibleFeaturedChurch
Do pew Bibles matter? Churches of all styles have had to ask this question in recent years. The increase of church plants using secular spaces for worship means that church planters must contemplate the extra weight, hassle, and expense of […]