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Bonnie KristianFeaturedBooksIssue 4

Spinning Toward Autocracy

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

Jake MeadorMusic

Easter

Jake MeadorMusic

Good Friday

As is our annual custom, we are not publishing any new essays, reviews, or other content during the tail end of Holy Week. Instead, hear these musical reflections and consider

Jake Meador

Good Friday

As is our annual custom, we are not publishing any new essays, reviews, or other content during the tail end of Holy Week. Instead, hear these musical reflections and consider the extent to which God went to rescue his people.

Rachel Roth AldhizerFeaturedFormation

Two Truths for Dark Days

Like many parents, I’ve sent my kindergartener to school recently with a pit in my stomach. Horror of the recent school shooting has ripped across the nation in the last week. My mind is preoccupied with terror. My kindergartener attends […]

Brad EastFeaturedEvangelicalismTheology and PracticeCurrent PoliticsSocietyIssue 4

Once More, Church and Culture

Christendom is the name we give to Christian civilization, when society, culture, law, art, family, politics, and worship are saturated by the church’s influence and informed by its authority.

J. Chase DavisFeaturedChurchEvangelicalism

Colonized by the City

We planted a church in Boulder under no illusions regarding its warranted reputation as one of the most left wing cities in our nation. It is no secret that Boulder is a bastion of progressivism and regularly listed as one […]

Jake MeadorChurch

A Church That Can't Exist in the World

Recent years have seen many evangelical thinkers become more alert to the work that individual doctrines do in our broader understanding of the Christian faith and life. The neglected, occasionally despised, and much misunderstood doctrine of divine impassibility, for example, […]

Guest WriterFeaturedEvangelicalism

Letter from a Victorian Exvangelical

From the Christian Observer, 1858, pp.251-256 Edited by Moses Bratrud Difficulties of Young Men It would be unfair, I think, not to give the “Christian Observer” credit for more candour than is to be found in many other publications of […]

Moses BratrudFeaturedEvangelicalism

Victorian Exvangelicals

If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses. [1] John Ruskin, 1851 Sometimes it is being […]

Rhys LavertyFeatured

The Ends of Worlds: Living With the Inevitable in Paul Kingsnorth’s Buckmaster Trilogy

When will the world end? In Paul Kingsnorth’s reckoning, it already has lots of times, in fact. “Worlds are always ending — that, it turns out, is one of my themes, or tics, or obsessions” — he confessed that in […]

L. M. SacasasFeatured

Toward a Technological Renewal

Even just ten years ago, serious attention to the question of technology in Christian communities was hard to come by. Today, that seems to have changed. Along with the rest of American society, Christians have grown more attentive to the […]