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Myles WerntzPolitical TheoryCurrent Politics

Why You Shouldn't Burn It All Down

Discontent with technology is a thorny briar patch with weird friends. We ask questions about what is to be done, if blowing it all up isn’t an option.

Brad LittlejohnPolitical TheoryBooks

Political Freedom Between Right and Rights

A political order built on rights without any account of the right will with time devolve into contradiction and incoherence.

Alastair RobertsBible

Did David Rape Bathsheba?: A Close Reading of the Relevant Texts

A close reading of the biblical texts around David's sin gives a more robust and terrifying understanding of his sin than most modern discourses provide.

Josh PaulingBooks

A Dystopian Novel for the Machine Age

Peco Gaskovski's 'Exogenesis' is a disturbing meditation on the intersection of fertility and our machine age.

Jake MeadorEvangelism

Evangelistic Opportunities in Our Moment

Glen Scrivener commented on some of the evangelistic opportunities he saw for our moment as he watched the Wesley Huff interview on the Joe Rogan podcast.

Case ThorpBooks

An Historian's History

Peter Brown's memoir is a delightful exploration not only of Brown's life as a historian, but of the subjects that have captivated him for decades.

Tyler HummelCurrent Politics

Last of the Middlebrow Protestants

Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush represent a failed form of American Protestantism, but one that sought to reckon seriously with personal faith.

Brad EastBooks

A Future Worthy of Life: Houellebecq, Decadence, and Sacraments

When one loses faith in God and faith in oneself, one loses faith in the future too.

Jake MeadorOnline WritingFormation

The Opining Life

If the one necessary thing is to contemplate God and prepare to meet him, how would that affect the way we write or think in public?

Jake MeadorReading

Bible and Theology Reading Plans for 2025

Plan your Bible and theology reading for this year with these reading plans.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalism

Best of 2024: Reflections on the Evangelical Fracturing, Ten Years In

The reformed charismatic church planting network Acts 29 serves as a model for the evangelical fracturing and can offer us many valuable lessons.

Jake MeadorEvangelism

Best of 2024: The Evangelistic Shift

Something has shifted regarding which social groups seem more open to Christian faith. What drove that shift and how should we respond as Christians?