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Brian PellCulture

Tiny Moving Parts's Defiant Joy

One way of understanding punk music and its various musical descendants is that it seeks a constructive counter-culture: it is defiant for the sake of joy.

Gillis HarpCulture

Resurrecting the Party of Bryan and Ryan

The examples of William Jennings Bryan and Monsignor Ryan provide two examples of what a Democratic party more friendly to workers and religion could be.

Jake MeadorCulture

After Nationalism: What Next for American Conservatism?

National conservatism fails as a viable strategy for American conservatives. But that does not mean we need to return to fusionism.

Michael LuccheseCulture

Why Iconoclasm Will Fail

Force alone is insufficient as a basis for political life. Common life arises from common loves preserved by the rule of law, not imposed by tyrants.

Nick AumillerCultureTechnologyFormation

Marketing as Stewardship

By applying Luther and Sayers's thought on vocation to the task of marketing we can arrive at a more principled and ethical approach to the discipline.

Ian SpeirCultureTheology

Freedom to be Bound: Religious Liberty from Moses to Madison

Religious liberty is understood best as the freedom of a community to be bound to obligations greater and higher than those of the state.

Daniel GoodmanCultureFormation

Aristotle in the Coffee Shop

Learn to recognize affirming the consequent and bulverism and you are ready to understand many 'debates' in our cultural moment.

Brian PellCulture

Musical Taste, Beauty, and Love for God

Taste in music is not purely arbitrary, but neither is it wholly objective. Rather, it is something that must be informed and used to lead us to God.

Daniel HummelCultureChurchFormation

Secular Protestantism is America's Religion

Both the progressive Protestant Mainline and conservative Evangelical movements have succeeded spectacularly, but not in the way either wanted.

Robert JoustraCulture

Post-Liberalism as Right Wing Deconstruction

The social problems that have provoked the post-liberal moment on the political right are real, but post-liberalism is a poor answer to them.

Jake MeadorCultureJournalFall 2025

Four Types of Christian Cultural Engagement

The work of cultural renewal will not come about through populism, separatism, or revanchism, but only through a principled commitment to healthy reform.

Jake MeadorCulture

Mapping the Political Moment

The post-Trump political moment will be defined by whether or not we can avoid collapsing into competing versions of arbitrary power.