The Archive

Every essay.

Stiven PeterBook Reviews

In the Era of the Judges

Aaron Renn's negative world thesis isn't about life in Babylon, but life in the time of the Judges.

Jake MeadorChurchEvangelicalism

Evangelical Catholicity and American Church Futures

If the American church is to take advantage of the opportunities in front of us we will need to shift our ways of thinking about several key issues.

Jake MeadorPolitical Theology

Civic Republicanism and the Magisterial Reformation

The civic republican tradition is partially downstream of magisterial Protestantism, yet it is today largely forgotten by many.

Peter LeithartTheologyEconomics

Make Friends Using Mammon

Money is not meant for material ends, but for the aid and support of our neighbors.

Ross ByrdFilm Reviews/Hollywood

Disney's 'Wish': An Inverted Genie Story

Disney's 2023 movie 'Wish' is best understood as a kind of inversion of a classic genie story with a deeply materialistic outlook.

John AhernMusic

A Conversation About Psalm Singing with Brittany Hurd

John Ahern recently interviewed Brittany Hurd, creator of the YouTube Psalm-singing platform Canticlear.

Matt MillerLiberal ArtsWriting

Empty Words: Against Artificial Language

The shape of our language will in turn shape us. When we become comfortable with the crude and banal, we ourselves become crude and banal.

Myles WerntzPolitical Theory

Beginning Again With Power: The Problem of Bureaucracy

The most useful image for understanding our current political moment is not 'empire' but rather 'bureaucracy.'

E. J. HutchinsonTheologySociety

Despair

That ours is an age of despair is plain. Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon can help us understand why.

Chris FogleFilm Reviews/Hollywood

How Politics Shape and Twist Relationships

The political contexts we live in inherently shape the way we relate to our neighbors and family.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalismCurrent Politics

The Doug Election and America After the Great Dechurching

The Doug election is a fascinating reset of America's socio-political context and offers exciting possibilities to politically marginal evangelicals.

Elizabeth SticeTheology

The Centrality of Consolation

Though we do not deserve it, we crave and desperately need mercy—and the consolation of providence is that through God we can receive it.