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Jordan SteffaniakTechnologyFormation
When we use artificial intelligence in ways that short circuit our own formation, we deprive ourselves of an opportunity to grow into our distinct callings.
Christine NorvellFormation
If God does not prune, I will die. Miraculously, the pruning is a sign that we are fruitful, especially since pruning in nature ensures multiple harvests.
CultureFormationMatthew Loftus
If people keep stoking the fires of moral outrage, we are likely to see more murders like Brian Thompson’s before the close of the decade.
CultureJohn ReasnorFormation
To view death as entertainment or spectacle harms our soul even more than the act of execution harms the inmate's body.
FormationChurchJohn and Jena StarkeBooks
Weariness and burnout are good reasons to come to the Sabbath. But they shouldn’t be the reasons that keep us there.
ChurchFormationJessie Turpin
When people grow tired of the rapidly shifting nature of modern culture, weary of not finding happiness in self-satisfaction, they will find the core of their longing fulfilled in the steadfast, though paradoxical, love of Christ.
A. A. KostasFormationChurch
A weaker, culturally accommodated version of Christian faith can render us immune, as it were, to the life we are called to in Christian discipleship.
FormationHaley Baumeister
Something profoundly needed can come from the humiliation of being emotionally and spiritually splayed out. Need invites hospitality and desperation welcomes receptivity.
FamilyCultureChristine AgarwalFormation
Listen carefully to the stories being told to you, and choose wisely which ones to listen to.
FormationCultureMarc Sims
Tolstoy's disillusionment with decadent Christianity initially made him a skeptic. But over time he couldn't maintain his skepticism and he began to doubt his doubts.
Hayden NesbitFormation
Many of us live with a frustratingly elusive lack of meaning and purpose. We are all, in a word, untethered and feel the gut-drop of falling.
PoetryKimberly Joyce WilliamsFormation
Why it is hard to define 'authentic' experience