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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 […]
Ian MosleyFamilyFeaturedCultureEconomics and Business
The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill has led to much reflection on the state of the modern evangelical soul. One thing that stood out from the podcast is that Driscoll and many like him have capitalized on the perception […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture
There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the “wisdom” of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, […]
Jake MeadorFeaturedCulture
In 1789, Otobo Cugoano, a freed slave and a Christian, wrote in his Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evils of Slavery against those who claimed that the manstealing and enslavement of Africans was justified by the fact that some of […]
Matthew LoftusFamilyCultureHistoryEthicsEconomicsEducation
What we mean when we talk about "the liberal order" or "liberalism" and why it's destroying us.
Matthew LoftusArtCulturebatman
I wanted to like The Batman. If only it wasn't so poorly written.
Matthew LoftusCultureHistory
Nationalism may not be the boogeyman you want it to be, but it might be the petard which by nationalists are hoisting themselves.
J. Chase DavisFeaturedCultureCurrent Politics
There is great concern in the church today about individualism. From Carl Trueman’s work on expressive individualism to other works revealing its deficiencies and threats to Christian spirituality, ours is believed to be an age of individualism. These critiques are […]
Flynn EvansFeaturedCulture
A steadily growing number of disillusioned evangelicals are finding comfort in the subversive doctrines of Christian Reconstructionism. As noted by Andrew Walker in an essay about the movement, those taking in the notions of Reconstructionism suffer mostly from dissatisfaction with […]
Matthew LoftusCulture
if you think you're the lone bulwark of truth, you're halfway to tripping over your own shoelaces
Matthew LoftusCulture
thinking about the different sorts of idea-expressers and how much attention they deserve