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Matthew LoftusFamilyCulture
There are different levels of responsibility for churches and Christians. How do we sort them all out?
Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture
In his piece on the Thorburn affair in Australia, Simon Kennedy offered an important and, to my knowledge, mostly new contribution to the entire negative world discourse. Though he mentioned the idea of “winsomeness” being the problem, he also proposed […]
Simon KennedyFeaturedCultureCurrent Politics
It didn’t take long, but we can now say that Aaron Renn and James Wood have been vindicated. Their recent analyses of our cultural moment and strategies for Christian cultural engagement have been proven right by recent events in Australia. […]
Matthew LoftusFeaturedCultureHealth and Medicine
For a tech-skeptic lover of Wendell Berry, Ivan Illich, and Neil Postman, as a family physician I sure picked the wrong job. Doctors have always used various technologies for treating patients, from the ancient Egyptian prescription to fumigate the womb […]
Matthew LoftusCultureEthicsEconomics
The only solution to the immigration crisis involves making many places around the world worth staying in.
Matthew LoftusCultureEthicsEconomics
The only solution to the immigration crisis involves making many places around the world worth staying in.
Jake MeadorFeaturedCultureCurrent Politics
My friend Shane Morris whipped up rather a remarkable storm recently on Twitter with this: Millennials who are very cavalier about not having children are in for a shock when they enter their 40s & realize life is only half […]
Myles WerntzFeaturedCultureEconomics and BusinessJournalJournal 3
In a recent guest column at Anne Helen Peterson’s Culture Study, Wendy Robinson wrote about her forays into the world of Peloton, on a growing phenomenon: the lack of community which people find within the ecosystems created by consumer products.[1] […]
Casey ShuttFeaturedCultureChurch
In the fall of 1998, I added what was at the time a pertinent, hot off the press book to my college dorm bookshelf alongside classics like Lewis’s Mere Christianity and Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man. The book, Francis Beckwith and […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedCultureCulture War
My friend Rod Dreher recently argued from his blog that we have hit a point in the trans revolution where a moral panic is appropriate, saying:
Josh PaulingFeaturedCulture
Lewis Mumford wrote in his 1934 classic Technics and Civilization that “the clock, not the steam-engine, is the key machine of the modern industrial age.” Due to the mechanical clock, “time-keeping passed into time-serving and time-accounting and time-rationing.” Mumford explains […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedCultureEvangelicalismCulture WarCurrent Politics
Shame is, amongst other things, the problem of how to understand yourself and your relationship to neighbor in the aftermath of offending or hurting your neighbor. Given the fragmentation of our society, we shouldn’t be surprised that no one seems […]