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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.

Dominick BaruffiCulture

Why Superman Endures

Superman's popularity comes from the fact that he is an image of what Lewis called the 'tao,' of loyalty to a kind of natural goodness under the law.

Kyle TuckerCultureChurch

Ancient Missional Practices for Modern Renewal

Evangelism for the early church was integrated into the life of piety, not a stand-alone project that only some Christians undertook.

Matthew LoftusCultureTechnology

MAHA, Medicalization, Karma, and Control

Clean living is more likely to lead to a healthy life. How likely is the question.

John AhernCultureFormation

The Plight of the Christian Scholar

One of the defining problems facing the church today is that we lack the infrastructure and funding to support elite Christian scholarship.

Ian OlsonCulture

The Luxury and Necessity of Pessimism

Pessimism fails when it makes us fatalistic about the possibilities of renewal, yet it is also a vital safeguard against entitlement and glib optimism.

Tessa CarmanCultureFormation

Why We Need to Attend to the Suffering

Hannah Rose Thomas's remarkable paintings remind us of the humanity of suffering people that are often so easy to forget or ignore.

Jake MeadorCulture

Are Bari Weiss and Protestant Franco the Only Options?

If the choices we have are Bari Weiss's politics or an imaginary Protestant Franco, the choice is not hard. But surely we have other options?