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Joseph OrsoFormationBook ReviewsFamily

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 GoochFormationBook Reviews

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.

ChurchFormationPhil Gaudreau

What to do When Authors We Love Sin

Our church library's little cull started as a judgement on the work and ministries of certain authors, but it was more than that.

David McNuttFormation

Living and Dying with the Saints in Wheaton

"A time will come when we will know what all this is for. And there will be no mysteries. We will know why we live. We’ll come together. We’ll plan orchards. Fields. We’ll build the land back up. Franz, I’ll meet you there. In the mountains."

TechnologyFormationHayden Nesbit

Saying 'Here I Am' in the Digital Age

We must pray for hearts that desire not a fragile, fleeting sense of self that must be recreated each day while we await validation via notifications, but one that longs to join the mission of the Triune God to bring flourishing to every good and beautiful place including where you are.

TechnologyFormationRobert Ordway

Screwtape is Hiding in Your Pocket

Screwtape Is hiding in plain sight.

Nadya WilliamsFormationBook ReviewsEducationFamily

Classical Education is for Everyone

Prioritizing an education in the virtues, therefore, is a political exercise of supreme importance for the wellbeing of any state. Classical Christian education today certainly aims to recover this mission—thus the emphasis in the book’s title on “the American Mind.”

Sarah ReardonFormation

Rest Is Not a Thing to be Bought, but Received

How we talk about our lives and desires is telling. Our speech about vacations and retreats reveals that Americans both in and outside of the church have accepted a particular mindset about work, life, and time

TechnologyChristine AgarwalFormation

They Learn Everything Except the Art of Learning

What do we do to avoid becoming people who want all the ease, speed, and information without any of the work to get it?

Daniel KunkelFormationChurch

The Secret Place

For many churches, ministry now consists of exposure—podcast or perish—leaders feel obligated to maintain an online presence and publish their church’s conversion rate, baptism ratio, average weekly attendance, and annual earnings. After all, how are they to hear without Mailchimp?