The Archive
Joshua HeavinFormation
If you want to do something world-changing or radical for God, start with this: Live a holy life.
Kirsten SandersChurchFormation
The dominant metaphors we use to describe the Christian life should be creaturely and organic, not mechanistic.
Jake MeadorChurch
While it is true that the American church must get more serious about anti-corruption efforts, it is also true that many quietly faithful pastors remain.
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.