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Augustine describes sin carefully to learn to see it. He does that not just so we can see it over there, but so we can learn to see it in ourselves.

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The Christian revolution transformed a normal practice of the Roman world into a moral offense and a crime in the Christian world.

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Why Christian Scholars Need the Psalms

We must build institutions that seek to form Christian minds according to Scripture. If we don’t, it will be done anyway, but not in ways we want.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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