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Chris Krycho

Chris is a husband and dad; theologian, composer, poet, and essayist; software developer; runner and triathlete; podcaster; and all-around nerd.

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Chris is a husband and dad; theologian, composer, poet, and essayist; software developer; runner and triathlete; podcaster; and all-around nerd.

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The Great Unmooring - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Richard Sennett. The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism. New York: WW Norton, 2000. 176pp, $15.99. Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel. Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from […]

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Faithful Extension and the Question of Human Origins - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The questions the church confronts most severely at present are questions of theological anthropology—so human origins and the doctrine of the Fall matter.

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The Rhythms of Family Worship - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Any program for recovering the vitality of the Church—whether the Benedict Option or some other—must have as one of its goals that ministers work “to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be […]

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32 Theses (and several more words) on Podcasting

This American Life is a great podcast. But it's an example of good podcasting, not the standard for judging all podcasts.

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Misreading Tolkien and Misreading Scripture | Mere Orthodoxy

O'Keefe & Reno's "Sanctified Vision" fails precisely because it exemplifies many of the errors most often cited by allegory's critics.

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Speak the Truth in Beauty: A review of 'Echoes of Eden'

Jerram Barrs' 'Echoes of Eden' aims to provide both that clear aesthetic and a pattern to follow.

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Noah: A Theological-Aesthetic Rorschach Test

For evangelicals, Noah works as a sort of theological-artistic Rorschach test. We seem to find it in what we expect given its origins and our disposition.

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God Become Man: Towards a Richer Theology of the Incarnation

Though the idea we ought to "incarnate" Christ to the world as Christ "incarnated" the Godhead to us is attractive, it misses something much better.

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A distant, glorious echo: Tolkien and typology

Christian readers have insisted on finding allegories to Christian theology throughout Tolkien's works. What they have found is typology instead.

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Jackson and Tolkien: Hollywood's Infatuation With Angst

Yes, inner conflict is real, and tormented struggle is a major part of our lives. But so is the valiant hero.

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With a grin: rejecting the victim's stance

The attitude of the permanent victim is toxic; Christians must reject it if we are to have the kinds of impact we desire.

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Only One Center: Reorienting Evangelical Theology on Christ - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The gospel is the way to the center, but it is not the center. Having put it there, we have misplaced many other genuine goods.