The Archive

Every essay.

Simon StokesFormation

Running the Race in a Secular Age

The Christian life is arduous as it ever was, but what was once a race that could be done in company and with mile markers often is done only in the dark.

Jake MeadorPolitical TheorySexuality

Liberalism and the Sexual Revolution

While one can easily argue for connections between liberalism and the sexual revolution, the way those connections are named is enormously important.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalismCulture War

Anti-Wokeness and the Evangelical Fracturing

In the aftermath of the great awokening, we have seen the emergence of four new and distinct evangelical responses.

Lara d’EntremontTheology and Practice

Christ’s Care As a Mother’s Love

Realizing that Christ cares for you in the way a mother cares for her child can offer a powerful source of comfort and hope even in the darkest of times.

Kevin BrownChurchFormation

The Call to John 17 Unity

The call to Christian unity given to us by Christ in John 17 is not conditional upon our circumstances or political context.

Derek King

What is Anglicanism? Responding to M. H. Turner

Though Anglicanism is doubtlessly reformational, it might be overstating the point to say it is not also a via media.

Matthew SchultzBook Reviews

The Experience of Unbelief

Joseph Minich's 'Bulwarks of Unbelief' is a helpful guide for Christians because it recognizes the atmospheric drivers of unbelief and responds accordingly

Ashley AnthonyTelevision

Reality Television and the State of Our Souls

When our interior lives become an object of entertainment, it is not just we ourselves that are hurt, but the people being entertained as well.

Jake MeadorChurch

The Mainline We Need

We don't need a recapitulation of the 1950s Mainline of America's third republic, but a different sort of mainline that can thrive in her fourth republic.

James WoodPolitical TheologyBook Reviews

Not Augustinian Enough

Christopher Watkin's 'Biblical Critical Theory' is a qualified success, but would be helped by a closer, more persistent engagement with Augustine.

Luke BrakeTechnology

Amalgamated Desires

Within the broader regime of cyborg theocracy, TikTok's function is often to reduce its users down to a kind of meat-puppet.

Jake MeadorChurch

Mega Churches and Reformed Catholicity

The loss of the Baby Boomers and mass dechurching will give megachurches an even larger role in the American church. What should they do with that power?