The Archive

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Rhys LavertyWorkChurchEconomics and Business

Why Pastors Should Get a Family Wage

What is an appropriate wage for pastors? Rhys Laverty makes the case for a wage sufficient to support not just an individual, but a household.

Ross ByrdCultureChurch

A Parish Manifesto

The most effective evangelistic message for our day may not be 'you are accepted as you are' but rather 'be holy, as God your Father is holy.'

Matthew SchultzTechnologyBook Reviews

The Limits of Liturgies

If the internet is both pornographically shaped and unavoidable, then there is not a great deal Christians can do to resist its malformative effects.

Patrick MillerChurchCulture WarEvangelism

What Happened When My Church Encountered Negative World

Christian love and showing grace to our enemies isn't a 'strategy' that can go out of date. It's simply what biblical fidelity requires.

Jake MeadorChurchEvangelicalism

American Evangelicalism as a Controversy Generator Machine

The most significant thing about the Alistair Begg affair isn't Begg himself or his advice, but how the affair highlights the weakness of evangelicalism.

Erin AhnfeldtEducationFormation

The Worst Thing Was Not the Last

Christians know that the worst things are not the last, as one public school teacher was reminded recently following a tragedy in his school.

Mitch EastFormation

The Gospel Is About Going to Heaven When You Die

In attempting to emphasize the resurrection we shouldn't dismiss the intermediate state. If we are in Christ we really will go to heaven when we die.

Blake CallensTechnologyEvangelicalismCulture War

How Commercial Incentives Break Christian Social Media

The commercial incentives of Christian social media mean that media producers are incentivized to use unequal weights and measures when criticizing others.

Jake MeadorBook Reviews

You Are Not Those Who Saw the Harbour Receding: On Matthew Lee Anderson's "Called Into Questions"

Matthew Lee Anderson's book is a call to revel in the delights of existence itself and to recognize the inexhaustibility of the God who calls us to exist.

Patrick MillerEvangelicalism

Evangelicals Need a Constructive Vision

In an era of negative visioneering, finding a constructive alternative feels impossible. But we are starving for something generative and hopeful.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalism

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.

Casey ShuttTechnology

AI and the Forces of Darkness

Though many dismiss such concerns as ignorant panic, there are real reasons to fear that the evil supernatural lingers behind much AI technology.