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Lanta DavisCultureFilm Reviews/HollywoodFormation

What The Odyssey Teaches Us About Temptation

Odysseus and his men know they cannot just sail by the sirens and hope their willpower and common sense will hold out against the sirens’ song. They have to prepare.

TheologyFormationBibleEthan Harrison

The Goodness of God and Goodness of Scripture

Illuminating the prayers of Thomas Cranmer with the aid of Thomas Aquinas

FormationTheologyBooksDrake Osborn

Loving God for the Sake of God

If the church is to be a place of “joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,” then her members, pastors, and leaders must learn the joy of being amazed by God and his glory in the created world.

EducationFormationElizabeth Stice

The Good and Goods of a Christian Liberal Arts Education

While across the country, K-12 classical education is on the rise, Christian colleges are not fully capitalizing on the opportunity presented. It is almost as though we have lost faith in what it is we do best.

CultureFormationAmy Mantravadi

Gluttony in the Age of GLP-1s

The Christian is free to use a GLP-1 or not use one, depending on his or her specific health situation, but the Christian is never free to stop desiring.

ObituaryFormationElizabeth SticeFamily

Delicious Life

What does it mean to “taste and see that the Lord is good?” It may be reflected in dying like my grandmother, without a bitter taste in the mouth.

ChurchFormationAlex Fogleman

The Heart of the Catechist

Teaching with joy requires humility, attention, and faithfulness.

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.

Joseph OrsoFormationBooksFamily

When Everything Is Forgotten

The following excerpt from Joseph Orso, On the Threshold of Worlds: Tending My Father Before and After His Last Breath is published with permission from Front Porch Republic Books and

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.

Griffin GoochFormationBooks

Why You Should Read Josef Pieper

Pieper offers a generation inundated by irony, anxiety, productivity-obsession, and cynicism a unique account of joy that owes less to mindless optimism than the rational consequences of recognizing the goodness of reality.

Joshua HeavinTheologyFormationSummer 2026Journal

What is Union with Christ?

Union with Christ is not the kind of thing one grasps and then moves on from; it is an infinite, inexhaustible well that is the key to the whole of the Christian life.