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Anna HeetderksCulture

After 'Values'

Values have their rightful place— they can help clarify priorities, envisage a desired end state, and motivate righteous action— but they cannot be the foundation of a moral life. 

Tessa CarmanJournalSummer 2026FamilyCultureBooks

Homeschooling Is More Normal Than You Think

Homeschooling matters because by its very nature—in all its non-standardized, messy, unwieldy glory—it is a movement against the professionalization, standardization, and replacement of the human being.

Kirsten SandersBooksCultureTechnologyJournalSummer 2026

Apocalypse Now

Park thinks that apocalypse can tuck us deeper into the world, like the dead who are buried in the natural cemeteries she describes. But she cannot hold onto the belief that accompanied this vision for burying the dead.

Annie CrawfordJournalSummer 2026FormationCulture

From Babel to Belonging: C. S. Lewis’s Fairy-Tale Cure for the Modern Machine

'That Hideous Strength' is a story about how to live with faith and hope in a world threatened by chaos and tyranny.

BooksBibleCultureGillis Harp

Christian Politics Without Idolatry

'Reimagining Biblical Politics' is an invaluable resource that provides the sort of insightful and practical Bible-based reflection that has been so conspicuously absent from many American churches.

JournalSummer 2026Health & MedicineBooksCultureMatthew Loftus

Man vs. Infectious Disease

The history told in 'The Great Shadow' is vast but incomplete.

CultureJohn Fea

Religious Liberty for All

The deeper question this report raises is not whether religious Americans deserve protection. It is whether "religious liberty," in this administration's hands, means freedom for all faiths to practice without government interference.

JournalSummer 2026TheologyCultureJake Meador

Stewarding Land and Language

What is needed, rather, is some account that offers us a way to name the things that are higher than us, a way to love those things, and a way to tune our lives to them.

James WoodCultureBooksTheologyJournalSummer 2026

The Return of the Common Good

Stefan Borg’s The Return of the Common Good: The Postliberal Project Left and Right arrives as a welcome—and much-needed—intervention in the liberalism debates.

BooksSexualityFamilyCultureBeatrice ScudelerJournalSummer 2026

Something 'Wicked' This Way Comes

Gress doesn’t deliver on her promise of a rigorous, methodical takedown of feminism as an ideology. Her account is partial at best, and misleading at worst. 

FormationBryce D. FuemmelerCulture

The Beguiling Search for Ourselves

Modern social media and technology have fashioned incurvatus en se into a way of life. Welcome, then, to the Era of Self-Focus.

BooksCultureFamilyVika PecherskyJournalSummer 2026

Bringing Up Nietzsche

We desperately need popular-level engagement with skepticism, especially the Nietzschean kind, in our churches. 'The Devil Reads Nietzsche' is a timely resource for many Christians, who might feel beaten down by the skepticism and even nihilism of our times.