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Hayden NesbitChurchFormation

Formed by Song: How Music Shapes the Christian Life

Throughout church history the great teachers of the faith have commended music to us as a vehicle for living the Christian life.

Adam FinkneyChurchFormation

Tradition Didn’t Kill My Faith. Amnesia Almost Did.

I didn’t lose my faith because Christianity asked too much of me. I nearly lost it because it asked too little.

Adam FinkneyChurchFormation

Tradition Didn’t Kill My Faith. Amnesia Almost Did.

I didn’t lose my faith because Christianity asked too much of me. I nearly lost it because it asked too little.

Jake MeadorCultureChurchBook ReviewsFormation

Liturgies of the Wild and Non-Expressivist Religion

If you want people to be bewildered by church, then church needs to be weird in some way.

Nadya WilliamsChurchBook ReviewsFormation

Preparing for Lent and Easter with a Cloud of Witnesses

The new edition of Plough's Lent and Easter reader features 96 texts that will help us remember the strange anticipation and hope of the Christian faith.

Matthew AdamsChurchFormation

Unreasonable Hospitality and the Ordinary Work of the Church

Churches are often good at transactions and routines. But while structure is important, if it is not paired with genuine care, it is insufficient.

Josh PaulingTechnologyChurch

Deep Fakes Come for Billy Graham

As liquid modernity is increasingly vaporized, Christian communities have the opportunity to be one of the last holdouts against technological fakery.

Joshua HeavinTheologyChurch

Confessional Protestantism in Ecumenical Winter

How can convinced historic Protestants build healthy ecclesial movements when the mainline is dying and evangelicalism is increasingly non-denominational?

Shebuel VargheseChurch

This World Is Still Not My Home

The much derided gospel hymn 'This World Is Not My Home' actually teaches a profound truth the church would do well to hear.

Marc SimsChurch

12 Theses on Church Buildings

Church architecture can slide into the ostentatious, but it isn't wrong to care about the aesthetic beauty of the space we use for the worship of God.

Hayden NesbitChurchFormation

How the Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Ten Commandments Ground Spiritual Formation and Soul Care

The Apostle's Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Decalogue can help us to understand both what we are and what we might become.

David J. ChamberlinCultureChurchFormation

A Framework for Faithful Ministry Leadership

Retired US Navy Vice Admiral John Scott Redd developed a framework for defining virtuous leadership which can apply in a variety of settings.