The Archive
Simon KennedyEducation
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
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
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
The theology of Pannenberg provides an interesting alternative in 20th century theology to the dominance of Karl Barth.
Zach HollifieldBible
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
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
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
Preserving American liberalism will almost certainly require us to think of liberalism not as an ideology but as a political method.
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
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
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
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
Is the Hunterian project of faithful presence simply dead today, an antiquated method that can't cope with contemporary challenges? (No, it isn't.)