The Archive

Every essay.

Simon KennedyEducation

Christian Education as Mosaic Building

A Christian education isn't about programming right ideas into people, but rather helping lay out a pattern of wisdom that students mature into over time.

Ian HarberFormation

In Defense of a Rule of Life

The point of a rule of life is not to create a bespoke spiritual identity, but to develop specific rules to help you with your specific sin struggles.

Joel CariniFamilyEthicsSexuality

Pro-Natalism After the Fall

Children are not pawns in the culture war, but it also is not wrong to have seemingly 'earthly' reasons for wanting to have them.

Ryan RagozineTheologyHistoryPhilosophy

Meet a Forgotten Giant of 20th Century Theology

The theology of Pannenberg provides an interesting alternative in 20th century theology to the dominance of Karl Barth.

Zach HollifieldBible

An Apologia for 'Doubting' Thomas

A close reading of the few texts we have about 'doubting' Thomas suggests that perhaps we've misunderstood his actions in John 20.

Katy CarlBook Reviews

Binding Up Our 'Large and Egregious Wounds'

Susan Fish's story won't take us back to Eden, but it can help us better understand some of what's been lost.

Erik CoonceFormation

What's Wrong with a "Rule of Life"?

The 'rule of life' concept offers some genuine value, but easily becomes a spiritualized sort of 'life hack,' merely another form of self-actualization.

Jake MeadorPolitical TheoryPolitical TheologyCurrent Politics

Saving Liberalism Requires Better Liberals

Preserving American liberalism will almost certainly require us to think of liberalism not as an ideology but as a political method.

Jake MeadorCurrent Politics

The Argument for Despair is Impenetrable

Arguments from despair become an easy way of suspending one's ordinary judgment or of tacitly coercing someone into an irrational change of mind.

Paul Frank SpencerMusic Reviews

"There's No Kingdom to Come": The Music of Hozier

It's striking that when he needs to search for hope, the materialist Irish singer Hozier somehow finds his way back to the language of Scripture.

Jake MeadorSocial Trends

Accumulated Absences

The path that leads Jayber Crow toward health and belonging is worth our attention, not least because it is now in danger of being lost.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalismFormation

Faithful Presence After the Evangelical Fracturing

Is the Hunterian project of faithful presence simply dead today, an antiquated method that can't cope with contemporary challenges? (No, it isn't.)