The Archive
Jake MeadorHistoryCurrent Politics
Our striver class lacks outlets and so slides toward decadence. The solution will be, at least in part, a moral awakening, a remembering of grace.
Nadya WilliamsBooks
The happiest people aren't those who have great wealth or power, but those who persist in small, ordinary faithfulness within their communities.
Jake MeadorFormation
Though of limited help to us, neither therapy nor weight training nor any other earthly technique can truly provide the healing balm we seek.
John SheltonCurrent Politics
So far post-liberal control of the GOP has coincided with the party's abandonment of social conservatives and embrace of barstool conservatism.
Andrew ArndtBibleBooks
Marilynne Robinson's account of mercy and providence offered in 'Reading Genesis' is a rich feast that will lift your eyes toward the merciful face of God.
Jeff WaltonChurch
This year's ACNA Assembly showed that the denomination is maturing, committed to evangelization and discipleship, and is more unified than many think.
Greta Gaffin
The shuttering of monasteries in England removed a form of religious compulsion—but the needs they had filled remained and were answered by the Royal Navy.
Warren KinghornHealth & Medicine
Mental distress nearly always has moral and medical components. To deny one or the other will cause us to mistreat those who suffer from mental illness.
Jake MeadorCulture WarCurrent Politics
As long as right wing media is defined by network characteristics rather than institutional traits it will be impotent in the world of policy and politics.
Jake MeadorCurrent Politics
Virtually all the great natural joys of my life come to me because of my home place in America and because America is first of all an idea and a dream.
Griffin GoochFormation
Reminders of our mortality and the relative unimportance of many of the things we worry over can help us resist the siren-like songs of anxiety.
Erik CoonceTechnology
Guided by the wisdom of Scripture and our fathers and mothers in the faith, Christians are uniquely equipped to thrive in our dizzying information age.