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TechnologyCharles Carman

On Not Having A Smart Phone

One thing I have found more recently in not having a smart phone is this: there is a muscle group I've had to exercise which would have atrophied had I accepted the smart phone as critical for one's existence.

Hayden NesbitTechnologyFormation

Connecting in an Age of Competition

Our very mode of life cuts our attempts at connecting off at the knees. In a digital age, our default posture is one of performance. If we are to move toward connection, we must relearn the purpose and art of conversation.

Daniel HindmanBibleTheology

Salvation and Gender in the Flood Narrative

If gender is an ordering principle in the creation of the cosmos, then we should expect it to also be an ordering principle within the re-creation of the cosmos. 

Alastair RobertsTechnology

Slop

Rather than manifestations of human beings falling short of the vocations of speech and creation, we will be exposed to a myriad expressions of the non-human feigning humanity and of human beings outsourcing their human expression to the non-human.

Jake MeadorChurch

A Story to Remember This Week at General Assembly

Being a genuinely national denomination creates challenges no one else faces. But the rewards are more than worth it.

Bill DavisBook Reviews

Arnold's Car Keys

How do you care for an aging parent whose mental decline has caused significant changes to their sense of judgment?

Book ReviewsRalph Wood

Drastic Unalikes: Flannery O’Connor and Her Mother

A new study of O'Connor is flawed by its inexcusable indifference to matters theological.

Steven WedgeworthFormationTheology

Confessing Sin, Then and Now

The words and phrases we use to confess our sin imply something significant about our understanding of sin.

Griffin GoochCulture

A Case Against Christian Doomerism

The world is nowhere near as uniquely bad as you think it is.

Marc SimsFormation

Augustine and the Power of Habit

The problem for Augustine, and for any of us who are examining the role of habits in the spiritual realm, is that changing the deep habits of unbelief are not so simple.

Agnes HowardBook ReviewsFamily

Motherhood, Never Done

When the world inflicts injuries on children, mothers feel the hurts too. Motherhood sticks in our faces the incommensurateness of us all, our insufficiency for each other, our desire for others’ good, our causing harm by trying to help.

Joshua HeavinBook ReviewsTheology

Jesus and the Law of Moses

Those who want to learn more about how Jesus relates to the law in his first-century context cannot improve upon Paul Sloan’s wonderful book, which will prove essential to anyone preaching or teaching from the synoptic gospels.