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Derek RishmawyPCA Next Generation ForumChurchCulture

Ministry After the Boomer Apocalypse

What the next generation needs is not our ability to catch a vibe, a wave, a revival, or a trend. Vibes shift and shift again. What they need is our continued commitment to ministering, yes, in culturally wise ways, but more fundamentally out of a bedrock of biblical conviction.

Casey SpinksCulture

Why I Wrote 'Finding the Founding'

The very words of the Declaration already demand something like a faith commitment, both in the founders who signed it and the “one people” the Declaration claims is America itself.

Jake MeadorCultureFilm Reviews/Hollywood

Renewal, Letting Go, Political Theology: Lessons from Up

Near the end of his essay on poetry and marriage Wendell Berry considers how free verse fits into his broader consideration of the relationship between fixed poetic forms and fixed

Anna Catherine McGrawCulture

When the Lights Go Out

As a young adult you are told to expect so much from these years, but what do these years expect from us in turn? Things are not as they should be, the lights are going out—therefore, let us go on.

Vika PecherskyDaniel HummelJohn EhrettAmy MantravadiCultureAmerica 250

America250 Forum, Day 1: The Idea of America

What do we mean when we say we love America? Do we love these people, 340 million strong? The light and dark ones, the old and young, the rich and poor, the sensible and wayward?

Jake MeadorAmerica 250Culture

A Refuge for Chaotic Saints

I cannot think of other western nations that so reliably produce such remarkable and unruly saints as we seem to grow quite predictably in America.

Griffin GoochCulture

A Case Against Christian Doomerism

The world is nowhere near as uniquely bad as you think it is.

CultureTheologyMichael A. G. Azad Haykin

On Becoming a Historian of Chromatic Theology

A preview essay on Michael Haykin's new book on how color has been employed to convey and accentuate elements of the Christian faith.

CultureFormationEddie LaRow

Even in the Agony of Despondency

Lincoln was a great man and leader not despite his frequent melancholy, but because he kept going even under the weight of melancholy.

Calvin StapertCultureMusic

No Beauty Without Boundaries

Stravinsky rightly said that our freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly we limit our field of action and the more we surround ourselves with obstacles.

Matthew CluraghtyCulture

The Ancient World Had No Word for Child Abuse

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

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.