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Jake MeadorTechnologyGender

Bad Readers and Their Twitter Swarms

Sheila Gregoire's attack on Nancy Pearcey is the latest example of how post-evangelical and Christian nationalist online styles are eerily similar.

Jake MeadorPolitical Theology

Augustine and the Order of Love: Debunking a Dumb Christian Nationalist Argument

Contrary to the claims of white nationalists masquerading as Christians, Augustine's concept of the order of love has nothing to do with ethnicity.

David MooreBible

The Trinity in the Book of Revelation

David Moore interviewed Brandon Smith about his recent book on the doctrine of the Trinity in the book of Revelation.

Elizabeth SticeEthicsHealth and Medicine

Making MAiD Unthinkable

A meaningful response to MAiD has both a legislative and communal aspect as Christians come together to provide space and care for the sick and the poor.

Alex FoglemanPhilosophyFormation

Does God Want You to be Happy?

Does God want us to be happy? It's a good question, but the best way to answer it is to complicate it first and then reply. St Augustine shows us the way.

Jake MeadorPolitical TheologyCurrent Politics

Frog and Toad Christendom: An Independence Day Proposal for Renewal

We should reimagine our politics to favor people's long-term good over their short-term pleasure. This proposal offers several ways we might do that.

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.