The Archive

Every essay.

James WoodGenderSexuality

Sexuality After Industrialism

Ivan Illich's forgotten book on gender offers a helpful framing that could help improve and elevate debates around gender in Christian circles.

Luke SimonGenderSexuality

Defining Healthy Masculinity: A Response to Louise Perry

The answer to Louise Perry's search for a healthy vision of masculinity is not found in cultural Christianity, but only via genuine Christian faith.

Trevin WaxTechnologyChurch

Denominations in an Age of Online Over-Exposure

Greater knowledge of the affairs of other churches combined with reduced embodied community has dramatically weakened ecclesial institutions.

Jake MeadorObituary

In Memoriam: Greg Sharpe

Greg Sharpe has gone to his rest. But he leaves behind him a great legacy--and a challenge to us all.

Paul Frank SpencerMusic Reviews

Something Unimaginably Blessed

Marcus Mumford's solo release, '(self-titled)' is a stirring and even audacious reflection on the realities of grace in the face of evil.

Andrew NobleFormation

Faithfulness in an Inside-Out World

What does it mean to live faithfully in a world where we assume that external reality must conform to our internal desires?

Matt MillerEducation

New Initiatives at the Center for Needless Splendor

Announcing: The Robert Farrar Capon Memorial Center for Needless Splendor and Research Institute in Unnecessary Studies (RFCMCFNSARIUS)

Nadya WilliamsFamilyFormation

In Praise of Being Inconvenient

The person who refuses to be inconvenienced by people is a person who refuses the blessing of sacrificially giving of oneself.

Daniel HindmanTechnologyHealth & Medicine

An Epitaph for John Henry

The story of John Henry has a way of repeating itself in American history because our nation values ethereal 'progress' more than its sons and daughters.

Joseph LaughonBooks

Faust and the Spirit of "Positive Christianity"

Sacra Press's decision to republish a pro-Nazi tract shows the problems that can arise from a politically motivated approach to theological retrieval.

Jake MeadorBooks

The Ordinary Means of Grace

What is most striking about Ashley Lande's quite extraordinary conversion is the fact that what provoked it can seem almost banal by comparison.

Warren Cole SmithBooks

After Worldview

Worldview and wisdom shouldn't be put at odds with each other. Both Kuyper and Bavinck recognized that they belong together.