With a grin: rejecting the victim’s stance
One of the great follies of our day is that every group’s story has become a tragedy. Our society has increasingly embraced a discourse of victimization, in which every subculture tends to define itself in terms of grievances created by...
Only One Center: Reorienting Evangelical Theology on Christ
If evangelicals have a singular strength, it is a willingness to disagree over secondary issues while agreeing on the centrality of the gospel, inerrancy, and conversionism. This has given us enormous flexibility to cooperate on missions, charity, social justice, and...
Evangelical Tracts and Real Art: Gungor and Creation’s Goodness
You know music has power when it has you shivering while running in hundred-degree heat. Güngör’s Ghosts Upon the Earth is like that, though. From the opening track, the album screams its willingness to be and do something terribly different...
Less Noisome Insistence, More Joyful Exuberance on Heaven
Heaven is a hot topic these days, thanks to N. T. Wright and some of his noisier interpreters. On Thursday, Matt pushed back a little on some of the more sweeping criticisms of the evangelical view of “heaven,” arguing that most evangelicals...
An Aspen in a Forest of Pines: Thinking through Asexuality
Note from Matt: I first met Chris Krycho after he reviewed Earthen Vessels and proceeded to grill me about it. He’s a thoughtful fellow and wrote the following. As I had been planning on addressing the same piece soon, I...