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Bob ThunePolitical TheoryCurrent Politics

David Brooks and the Limits of Liberalism

David Brooks says we need a gifts-based liberalism. But as he describes it, 'gifts-based liberalism' sounds like it might just be... conservatism.

Jake MeadorCurrent PoliticsPlace

On Not Being Weird About Where You Live

The true lines of the culture war divide in America are not state-based, but are fuzzier, dividing blue urban hubs from red rural heartlands.

Noah WingLiteratureBook Reviews

Fruit of the Enlightenment

Mary Shelley saw the Enlightenment more clearly than her husband, Percy, and what she saw scared her.

Casey ShuttGenderBook Reviews

Unpacking the Gender Paradigm

Abigail Favale's "The Genesis of Gender" is a much-needed model for how Christians can and should engage with contemporary gender ideology.

Lara d’Entremont

We Need Secret Gardens

Time in the natural world teaches us attentiveness and how to think less of ourselves and more of others, guiding us ultimately to a life of love.

Josh PaulingBible

Cross Multiplying: Expanding our Vision of the Cross

Jonathan Linebaugh's new book not only offers readers new ways of looking at the work of St Paul, it is also elegant, artful Biblical scholarship.

Danielle TreweekSexuality

The Heavenly Significance of Singleness (and Marriage)

Though often forgotten in the modern church, many church fathers strongly believed that celibacy and virginity taught us something about the life to come.

Jake MeadorChurch

The Point of Church Isn't to Make You Feel Whole

Vanity and self-absorption are some of the surest ways I know to undermine church life and hinder the work of God in local congregations.

Jake MeadorTechnologyPolitical Theology

The Limits of Willpower

A bare proceduralist political project will not be sufficient in an era that, through technology, makes destructive vices so readily accessible.

Jake MeadorTechnology

Phone-Free Churches?

Should churches attempt to ban or limit smartphones in public worship?

Eric McLaughlinBiblehealth

Christ Mirrors Back Our World

The Psalms suggest to us that we can and should be people who can lament and rejoice at the same time, for both are part of the experience of God's people.

M H TurnerFeaturedChurch

Why Is Anglicanism a Gateway to Catholicism? - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

By M. H. Turner If you have been an Anglican in North America for more than a decade or two, there is an experience you have almost certainly had. You have known someone who got up one day and jumped […]