The Archive

Every essay.

Seth TrouttTheology and Practice

Understanding Evil with Cormac McCarthy and John Frame

If we use Frame's triperspectivalism to illuminate varieties of evil in the works of McCarthy we will find a useful heuristic for addressing sin and evil.

Anna Catherine McGraw

A Place Where I Found Courage and Peace

The recent controversy surrounding Wheaton College badly misrepresents a college that is seeking to be true to its calling as a Christian institution.

Erik CoonceFilm Reviews/HollywoodLiterature

Desert Power

'Dune' offers a powerful account of evil and an often realistic account of our failings, but does it leave us with anything solid to measure ourselves by?

Jake MeadorBook Reviews

Instruction Out of the Past

Bray and Keane's 'How to Use the Book of Common Prayer' is an invaluable resource to any Christian seeking a deeper, richer practice of prayer and piety.

Vika PecherskyCurrent PoliticsEvangelism

Lessons from Post-Soviet Russia for American Christians

The experience of societal tension and brief religious openness in post-Soviet Russia should have a chastening effect on those hailing the 'vibe shift.'

Wes HurdBook Reviews

Beyond Neo-Calvinism? A Review of 'Beyond the Modern Age' Seven Years Later

Does the end of the long 20th century also inherently mean the decline of neo-Calvinism, a system of thought that has become so bound up with that world?

James WoodGenderSexuality

Sexuality After Industrialism

Ivan Illich's forgotten book on gender offers a helpful framing that could help improve and elevate debates around gender in Christian circles.

Luke SimonGenderSexuality

Defining Healthy Masculinity: A Response to Louise Perry

The answer to Louise Perry's search for a healthy vision of masculinity is not found in cultural Christianity, but only via genuine Christian faith.

Trevin WaxTechnologyChurch

Denominations in an Age of Online Over-Exposure

Greater knowledge of the affairs of other churches combined with reduced embodied community has dramatically weakened ecclesial institutions.

Jake MeadorObituary

In Memoriam: Greg Sharpe

Greg Sharpe has gone to his rest. But he leaves behind him a great legacy--and a challenge to us all.

Paul Frank SpencerMusic Reviews

Something Unimaginably Blessed

Marcus Mumford's solo release, '(self-titled)' is a stirring and even audacious reflection on the realities of grace in the face of evil.

Andrew NobleFormation

Faithfulness in an Inside-Out World

What does it mean to live faithfully in a world where we assume that external reality must conform to our internal desires?