The Archive

Every essay.

Steven WillingFormation

A Taxonomy of Pride in 'The Great Divorce'

Lewis's 'The Great Divorce' offers a bracing and disturbing series of portraits all showing different forms of pride and its fruit.

Case ThorpCulture

Ida B. Wells's Public Faith

Emboldened by her understanding of Christianity, Ida B. Wells walked the gospel into places where it was unwelcome.

Haley IsbellChurchEducation

The Other Side of Seminary

The banal work of submitting invoices and managing calendars is easy to forget, but our institutions can't function without people who do that work well.

John EhrettCultureBook Reviews

The Problem with 'Religion'

A key problem with Christian nationalist theories is that they presuppose the modernist conception of 'religion' that they ostensibly want to subvert.

Erik CoonceBook ReviewsChurch

A Scrapbook of Pastoral Care

What ought to occupy a pastor’s time? Long-time pastor Reuben Bredenhof attempts to address that question in his book 'The Ministry of Small Things.'

Elizabeth SticeBook Reviews

Baa, Ram, You?

The One and the Ninety-Nine rests on a 'simple' premise: 'Each of us is torn between belonging and differentiation; few ever learn to manage that tension.'

Hayden NesbitCulture

Crisis and Covenant

The concept of covenant offers a helpful way out of the narrative trap in which our culture is currently stuck.

Dave StrunkChurch

How to Help Include Children's Ministry Volunteers in Worship

Effective church ministry exists on a spectrum of the ideal on one side and ‘what people will actually participate in’ on the other side.

Nadya WilliamsBook Reviews

The Midlist, the Middlemen and the Future of American Literature

Because writers take time to grow and develop, it's good that they have long runways. But in today's publishing world, the runways are shorter than ever.

Vika PecherskyBook ReviewsFormation

The Miracle of Communion: to Know and to Love as God

'The Brothers Karamazov' shows a moment in which two people encounter each other not as objects of conquest but as beloved subjects and common persons.

Alan NobleBook Reviews

To Live Well: Bonus Question and Answer

Our interview with Alan Noble went long, so we are sharing some bonus Q and A that Noble did over email following the interview.

Joseph MinichBook Reviews

Whose Time? Whose World?

Rosa's latest book continues his probing investigation into 'modernity.' But it is unclear if Rosa's theory of resonance can do all that needs to be done.