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John EhrettBook ReviewsFormation

You Don't Escape to Narnia

The point of the Narnia tales isn't to escape your normal life, but to find something in Narnia that you also must learn to find in 'normal' reality.

Stephen SpinnenweberChurchFormation

Shepherds, Brothers, Witnesses: A Vision for Pastoral Life Together

Any worthy vision of pastoral life must be rooted in faithful preaching, brotherly trust, and confidently proclaiming the Gospel.

Derek RadneyChurch

A Refuge for Sinners and Sufferers

A healthy church is a church marked by hospitality and care for sinners and sufferers. But how do you make such an aspiration a reality?

Miles SmithBook Reviews

Reading the Exvangelicals

It is almost certainly not coincidental that many exvangelicals have come from syncretic, evangelical charismatic backgrounds.

Michael GembolaFormation

Ancient Pastoral Wisdom for a Therapeutic Age

Integrating psychology and theology has too often been an integration of Sunday School-level theology with PhD-level psychology.

Seth TrouttChurchFormation

Church Discipline in the Digital Age

The digital world has made church discipline seem impossible, pointless, and irrelevant. Yet churches cannot make disciples without discipline.

Skyler FlowersFormation

How Online Media Deforms Christian Disciples

An unhealthy online media diet will malform and twist Christian disciples. The best (only?) way out is embodied, local Christian community.

L. M. SacasasTechnologyFormation

The Thing That is Silence

Silence is best understood not as a negation, but as a positive and formative presence whose absence we suffer from.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

Generation Awakened: Inside the Gen Z Revival at Asbury

The story of the Asbury revival is one of the Holy Spirit moving... and also of God's people responding as needed.

Jake MeadorCurrent Politics

The Hindu Nationalist Headlining NatCon4

A key leader in the Hindu nationalist movement in India, which has persecuted Christians for decades, will be at NatCon4 with Al Mohler and Doug Wilson.

Ben FrushBook Reviews

Out of the Shadows, Room to Deepen

Though not without limitations and shortcomings, Goligher's 'How Then Shall We Die?' is an excellent meditation on the goodness of life and dependency.

Jake MeadorFeaturedCurrent Politics

Christianity Against the Civilizational State(s) - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

In his book Return of the Strong Gods, First Things editor Rusty Reno suggests that we are nearing the end of the long 20th century and, with it, the end of the American-centric global order that defined the latter stage […]