The Archive

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CultureFormationAmy Mantravadi

Gluttony in the Age of GLP-1s

The Christian is free to use a GLP-1 or not use one, depending on his or her specific health situation, but the Christian is never free to stop desiring.

Anna HeetderksCulture

After 'Values'

Values have their rightful place— they can help clarify priorities, envisage a desired end state, and motivate righteous action— but they cannot be the foundation of a moral life. 

Nadya WilliamsBooksJournalSummer 2026FamilySexuality

Cultivating a Well-Ordered Anthropology in a Dehumanizing World

We’re today’s Roman emperors, declaring ourselves gods. It’s going about as well for us as it did for folks like Nero.

Daniel KunkelChurch

Father Mychal Judge: Honoring 9/11’s First Officially Recorded Casualty, 25 Years Later

When I see Father Judge dressed in his chaplain’s gear, inside the North Tower, praying without ceasing, I see a pastor with his people, suffering with and for them.

ObituaryFormationElizabeth SticeFamily

Delicious Life

What does it mean to “taste and see that the Lord is good?” It may be reflected in dying like my grandmother, without a bitter taste in the mouth.

Tessa CarmanJournalSummer 2026FamilyCultureBooks

Homeschooling Is More Normal Than You Think

Homeschooling matters because by its very nature—in all its non-standardized, messy, unwieldy glory—it is a movement against the professionalization, standardization, and replacement of the human being.

Kirsten SandersBooksCultureTechnologyJournalSummer 2026

Apocalypse Now

Park thinks that apocalypse can tuck us deeper into the world, like the dead who are buried in the natural cemeteries she describes. But she cannot hold onto the belief that accompanied this vision for burying the dead.

ChurchFormationAlex Fogleman

The Heart of the Catechist

Teaching with joy requires humility, attention, and faithfulness.

Ronni KurtzTheology

On the End of Theology

A good pair of glasses is only a means to the end of better vision, just as theology is a means to the great end of beholding God.

Annie CrawfordJournalSummer 2026FormationCulture

From Babel to Belonging: C. S. Lewis’s Fairy-Tale Cure for the Modern Machine

'That Hideous Strength' is a story about how to live with faith and hope in a world threatened by chaos and tyranny.

BooksBibleCultureGillis Harp

Christian Politics Without Idolatry

'Reimagining Biblical Politics' is an invaluable resource that provides the sort of insightful and practical Bible-based reflection that has been so conspicuously absent from many American churches.

JournalSummer 2026Health & MedicineBooksCultureMatthew Loftus

Man vs. Infectious Disease

The history told in 'The Great Shadow' is vast but incomplete.