The Archive

Every essay.

Jake MeadorPoetry

Alcuin's Nightingale

For Alcuin, the nightingale's song not only lifts human beings toward beauty, but actually transforms us as well.

Jake MeadorPoliticsCulture War

If It Were Me, I'd Try Not Helping the Christian Nationalists

Secular media that treat utterly ordinary Christian beliefs as markers of Christian nationalism will only help promote totalitarian Christian nationalism.

Jake MeadorTechnology

Staying Human in the Fourth Republic

The defining problem of the next era of American life is likely to be the question of how to stay human in a technologically mediated world.

Jake MeadorCurrent Politics

Political Finger Guns Mode

Political finger guns is a style of politics that mistakes radical ideas for a real plan and blithely ignores questions about process and implementation.

Jake MeadorTechnologyEthicsChurchFormation

What Can Natural Law Do?

The technological challenges we will soon face are not the sort that can be defeated primarily through reason and argumentation.

Jake MeadorChurchFormation

Initial Notes on Ministry in a Therapeutic Age

While therapy and counseling can be a great good, they also can slide into a totalizing system that undercuts Christian discipleship.

Dennis SansomTheology

The Cosmic Christ and an Ethic of Reconciliation

A de-churched society desperately needs to hear the good news of God's providential care for the world and his intention to restore the cosmos.

Jake MeadorEthicsFormation

What I Saw at the We Who Wrestle with God Tour

Is mercy a vice or a virtue? I think most of us want it to be the latter. But on the logic of Jordan Peterson's intellectual system, it might be a vice.

Simeon SwingerMusic

Getting to Stop by Woods on a Snowy Evening

An unexpected illness offered one musician a chance to return to the more pensive and quiet way of life that helps draw us into wonder.

T. M. SuffieldFormation

Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

What did Jesus mean when he said that those who mourn are blessed?

Matthew Lee AndersonFormationLent

Raising the Floor: On the Value of Asceticism

Ascetical practices are helpful because they induce crisis in ways that change us without destroying us.

Matthew LoftusFamilyCulture War

You Can’t Reclaim the Culture by Having More Kids

Treating children as a prop in the culture war is horrifying enough in itself because that isn't what children are. Even so, it's a lousy strategy anyway.