The Archive

Every essay.

Matt MillerEducation

New Initiatives at the Center for Needless Splendor

Announcing: The Robert Farrar Capon Memorial Center for Needless Splendor and Research Institute in Unnecessary Studies (RFCMCFNSARIUS)

Nadya WilliamsFamilyFormation

In Praise of Being Inconvenient

The person who refuses to be inconvenienced by people is a person who refuses the blessing of sacrificially giving of oneself.

Daniel HindmanTechnologyHealth & Medicine

An Epitaph for John Henry

The story of John Henry has a way of repeating itself in American history because our nation values ethereal 'progress' more than its sons and daughters.

Joseph LaughonBook Reviews

Faust and the Spirit of "Positive Christianity"

Sacra Press's decision to republish a pro-Nazi tract shows the problems that can arise from a politically motivated approach to theological retrieval.

Jake MeadorBook Reviews

The Ordinary Means of Grace

What is most striking about Ashley Lande's quite extraordinary conversion is the fact that what provoked it can seem almost banal by comparison.

Warren Cole SmithBook Reviews

After Worldview

Worldview and wisdom shouldn't be put at odds with each other. Both Kuyper and Bavinck recognized that they belong together.

Brewer EberlyHealth & Medicine

Unsouling the Patient: Notre Dame's Lessons for Medicine

Doctors face constant difficulties in caring for their patients. But it helps if you recognize you're dealing with someone who has a soul.

Jonathan CioranCulturePolitical Theory

Iron Sky: Peter Thiel and the Rise of Gay Space Fascism

The most likely ideology to define the future of the American right is the anti-democratic technophilia of tech billionaire Peter Thiel.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalism

The Rise of the Right-Wing Exvangelical

The right exvangelicals are both an echo and a mirror of the older left exvangelicals.

Trevin WaxEducation

Reimagining Seminary as Neo-Monastic Cohorts

We need to find a model for seminary education that preserves in-person learning and spiritual formation as essential parts of the seminary experience.

Jake MeadorPolitical Theory

After Progressive Neo-Liberalism: What comes next?

The era of progressive neoliberalism seems well and truly over. What comes next could be better, but there are no guarantees.

E. J. HutchinsonCurrent EventsPoetry

Fire and Ice

A poetic warning about presuming to know the mind of God