The Archive
Josh BriscoeFeaturedhealth
The doctors say she’s dying, but everything looks much the same. A plastic tube continues to supply every breath, various fluids continue to drip into her veins, her legs remain swollen, and an eyelid hasn’t fluttered in days, not even […]
Joshua HeavinFeaturedChurch
Regular church attendance is probably not convenient for anyone. Consistent and whole-hearted participation in the divine liturgy, an active work of service and attentiveness to God and others, a demanding labor beyond passive observation as an audience, is not something […]
Jake MeadorChurchCommunities
There is a simple reason that many neo-fundamentalists and progressive evangelicals keep swarming, harassing, and slandering people on social media: It keeps working. If it works, why would they stop? If you want them to stop, you need to ignore […]
Matthew LoftusHealth and Medicine
Matthew Loftus responds to critics of his First Things essay on single-payer healthcare
Jake MeadorCommunities
About a year ago something happened on Twitter that persuaded me to change my habits on the platform—effectively abandoning the platform and automating my feed.
Brad EdwardsFamilyFeaturedCulture
J. M. Barrie first wrote Peter Pan as a play in 1904, expanding it into a full novel in 1911. Nothing he wrote before or since would ever come close to sparking such popular reception. It tapped into and articulated […]
Jake MeadorChurch
One of the most pressing problems facing the church in the west right now is how we can course correct after 40 years of failed discipleship strategies. The past decade has exposed the fact that many of the people in […]
Bonnie KristianFeatured
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2022, 340 pp., $29.95 pb. Hitler hath slain his millions, and Mao his ten millions. But what do we make […]
Matthew LoftusFormation
When a 19-year-old is in the cage stage, it's understandable. When a man three times his age still is, it's sad.
Sarah ClarkFeatured
Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon, Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021, 320 pp., $27 pb. At my master’s graduation last spring, the dean of our school gave the commencement address. He began with […]
Jake MeadorChurch
One of the more formative experiences of my Christian life came a couple days after my arrival at Rochester L’Abri. It was Sunday evening, which meant high tea. It was an old L’Abri tradition dating back to the Schaeffer’s: Sunday […]
Brewer EberlyFeaturedhealth
Sandro Galea. Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 274pp, $28.95. One of my favorite ways to orient new medical students on the clinical team is to riff on […]