The Archive

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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.

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Christian love and showing grace to our enemies isn't a 'strategy' that can go out of date.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.