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Matthew LoftusCulture

This is war! Now put down your sword and pick up your ear trumpet.

On "loving and serving" when the LGBT agenda is hostile to Christian faith.

Matthew LoftusCulture

Is the Benedict Option a "Safe Space"?

LGBT issues are pretty triggering for Christians. How do we deal with threats to religious liberty without giving in to hyperbole?

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics

Sympathy for the Trump Voter

Do Trump voters require our sympathy? Not really. But we can't just dismiss them, either.

Matthew LoftusCultureHealth & Medicine

I love candy, but I'm glad my wife won't let me eat it all the time

If you eat intellectual junk food, you will get moral diabetes. Which leads to cultural amputations and political dialysis. And terrible-analogy insulin.

Matthew LoftusCultureEconomics

What Wendell Berry Gets Wrong About Wendell Berry

Don't let the particulars of Wendell Berry's vision hinder you from learning from the principles.

Matthew LoftusCulture

If our enemy is modernity, aren't immigrants and Muslims on our side?

Individualistic atomism is a juggernaut that an authoritarian nationalism won't hold back.

Brett McCrackenCulture

Don Draper is an Ad, Man

Mad Men's Don Draper isn't just an ad man who create ads. He's an ad himself.

Jake MeadorCulture

What Zlatan Ibrahimovic Taught Me About Enchantment

Conversations about "reenchantment" can quickly become lifeless and arid--which is why we should all watch this classic goal from Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Matthew LoftusCultureFormation

Engagement is Discipleship

What does it mean to engage culture well? Ought we retreat, assimilate, or something else? Cultural engagement is discipleship.

Jake MeadorCultureChurchSocial Trends

Respectability and the Plausibility of Orthodoxy

The rise of moralistic, therapeutic deism has created new challenges for the church and, particularly, for the concept of religious orthodoxy.

Matthew LoftusPoliticsCultureEconomics and Business

Faith, Family, and the Dangers of Capitalism

Do Hobby Lobby’s day-to-day practices contravene many conservative values? Are the dangers of capitalism more than we reckoned for?

Michael HendrixPoliticsCulture

Millennial Insecurity Runs Washington D.C.

Washington D.C. runs on millennial insecurity. For every job a millennial leaves, fifty want to take over.