The Archive

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Jessica MiskellyHistoryLiteratureSexuality

Unreachable Rapture: Rescuing Romance

The modern notion of "big romance" is both unrealistic and demeaning to one's partner. Our conception of eros needs to be rescued by agape.

Cameron ShafferBibleTheologyChurch

Renewing Public Protestantism: Seminaries

The church is in decline because it has pastors who may know techniques, but do not know God’s revelation. And now neither does the church.

Mark McDowellChurchHistory/Church History

What the Reformation Teaches About How to Address Ecclesial Abuses

The Reformation was not purely a movement of theological reform, but was also a movement of moral reform combatting ecclesial abuses.

Jake MeadorFamilyChurchMarriageSexuality

Inane Evangelical Gender Debates, Briefly Summarized

On why we never ask deeper questions and instead mostly yell at heavily bearded conservative men on Twitter for making creepy comments about yoga pants

T. M. SuffieldCultureChurch

It's Time to Build Counter-Institutions

A time of social breakdown and decay is a fraught time in which to build new institutions—and yet that is precisely the work such a moment calls for.

Derek KingPolitical TheoryLiteratureCurrent Politics

Free Speech When No One is Listening

The Free Press podcast 'The Witch Trials if JK Rowling' is well-intentioned, but misses the core problem: What if free speech requires a shared world?

Matt RossiChurch

A Conference for Taking Counsel Together

The Radical Vocation conference will provide Anglicans with a chance to gather together and imagine a brighter future for the Christian movement.

Rachel Roth AldhizerFamilyGenderMarriage

What Is Beauty For?

Our world regards beauty as a kind of consumptive good, something to be bought, sold, and consumed. But beauty isn't a product; it's a gift with a purpose.

John EhrettAnthropologyBooks

Never Really Our Own

Tara Isabella Burton's new book is overflowing with ideas, but its positive vision lacks any real teeth to overcome the problems Burton identifies.

David ChoiChurchImmigration

Becoming an Asian-American Church

The English Ministry model of youth outreach adopted by churches of Asian immigrants in the US is failing. And so far its successor has not been found.

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.