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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.

Trevin WaxChurchBook ReviewsFormation

The Rise and Fall of Confession—and What It Reveals

The collapse of confession in Catholic America may seem like a story about Rome, but it reveals something true about us all.

E. J. HutchinsonMusicTheologyChurch

O God, Creator of All Things: A Hymn of St Ambrose

Here you can read in English for the first time a translation of a hymn of St Ambrose's that was much loved by both St Augustine and Martin Luther.

Drake OsbornTechnologyChurchFormation

What is Technology Good For?

We can and should distinguish between technologies that primarily preserve, technologies that primarily produce, and technologies that primarily form.

Daniel HummelCultureChurchFormation

Secular Protestantism is America's Religion

Both the progressive Protestant Mainline and conservative Evangelical movements have succeeded spectacularly, but not in the way either wanted.