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Hayden NesbitChurchCulture

Learning from Rehoboam: Lessons on Leadership and Transitions

Solomon's son offers an alarming but instructive example of what can happen when leaders are vain and arrogant.

JournalSummer 2026CultureEducationBrian Auten

Being a Public School Kid

There was nothing remotely directly or indirectly “woke” or “leftist” about Mrs. Higuchi’s public school classroom. There was no “indoctrination.” It wasn’t about empathy or sympathy. Instead, it was something much more classically humanist — perhaps even personalist. She taught love.

Health and MedicineBook ReviewsCultureAmy Mantravadi

When Therapy Culture Comes to Church

Loftus's critique of therapeutic culture is not academic analysis as much as personal. He desires genuine healing precisely because of his close experience with sickness.

Dylan PahmanCulture

The Problem of Christian Socialism

As socialism gains new influence in American public life, Christians face an old question with fresh urgency: can devotion to Christ and socialism truly coexist? 

Jake MeadorCulture

Ross Douthat and the Future of Digital Media

Everyone (ultimately) loses when columnists are remade into media personalities.

John EhrettTechnologyCulture

PowerWash Simulator and the Yearning to Work

What does it say about us, our nation, and our economy that over 17 million people now spend hours playing a simulator in which they do decent blue collar work?

Nadya WilliamsCulture

The Great Books for You and for Me

What is interesting about left-coded arguments for the Great Books is that they often sound exactly like right-coded arguments for the Great Books.

Jake AdkinsFilm Reviews/HollywoodCulture

Remythologizing the Myths: Christopher Nolan's Odyssey and the Fractures in a Secular Age

Notes on Homer, Christopher Nolan, Kevin Vanhoozer, and how the flat world built by a century of demythologizing is generating its own dissatisfaction

Jake MeadorChurchCulture

Is the Era of Mere Christianity Over?

We may be entering an era marked by the continued decline of denominationalism alongside an increase in theological factionalism.

Tessa CarmanBook ReviewsCulture

Does Christian Fiction Exist?

There is only one plot: the Scheme of Redemption. All other plots, if they are any good, are splinters off this basic plot.

Joshua HeavinCultureHealth & Medicine

No Last Rites for MAiD

Medical Assistance in Dying is opposed by people of sound conscience for many reasons. Matthew Loftus capably distinguishes between allowing people to die and killing them. Jonathan von Maren notes

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.