The Archive
Drake OsbornChurch
Why would an ordinary evangelical congregation in central Texas open their doors to host the New York Times for a feature?
Josh PaulingTechnology
We have reached terminal velocity for information—and the results are that our own sense of the material and our own finitude has been eroded and weakened.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
Most Americans now live in what Paul Kingsnorth has called 'the void.' While devastatingly sad, it also suggests a wonderful opportunity for the church.
Jake MeadorHistoryCurrent Politics
The promise and hope that came with early forms of disenchantment have given way to a sense of despair.
Jake MeadorTechnology
Societies with healthy, functional institutions have built-in models for sorting and filtering information. When those defenses fail, everyone suffers.
Paul FineHistoryCurrent Politics
A survey of post-war American Christian nationalism suggests that that era's cultural Christianity quickly gave way to vague spiritual-not-religiousism.
Steven WedgeworthHistoryLiteratureCurrent Politics
That great quote you want to put to work on social media might not mean what you think it means.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
When a sociological evangelicalism is the norm, it quickly leads to clericalism and a distended, twisted vision of Christian common life.
Jake MeadorEvangelicalism
The collapse of the old Protestant Mainline is the public moral disaster that America still hasn't recovered from or reckoned with.
Andy HoodPhilosophyEvangelism
While not without value, the concept of worldview can lead to bad applications because it eats away at the idea of a common reality shared by all people.
Matthew ArboEthicsEvangelicalism
The problem facing us is not so much a lack of good Protestant ethicists as it is a complete breakdown of trust between Protestant ethicists and the laity.
Nathan GuyPolitical Theory
Maintaining our hold on liberal ideas about human dignity without their intellectual foundations in Christianity is proving to be difficult.