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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?

Hayden NesbitTechnologyFormation

Connecting in an Age of Competition

Our very mode of life cuts our attempts at connecting off at the knees. In a digital age, our default posture is one of performance. If we are to move toward connection, we must relearn the purpose and art of conversation.

Steven WedgeworthFormationTheology

Confessing Sin, Then and Now

The words and phrases we use to confess our sin imply something significant about our understanding of sin.

Marc SimsFormation

Augustine and the Power of Habit

The problem for Augustine, and for any of us who are examining the role of habits in the spiritual realm, is that changing the deep habits of unbelief are not so simple.

Drake OsbornFormationTechnologyMagnifica Humanitas

The Joy of Naming the World

The danger of humanity since the fall of man is not simply that we have the potential to  “unname” or “unhuman” ourselves, but that we have the potential to create an inhuman and “nameless” world, a world where it becomes harder to live humanly.

Elizabeth SticeFormationFilm Reviews/HollywoodHealth & Medicine

The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Living and Dying

The representation of so-called "assisted dying" on Hacks is harmful because it is dishonest about dignity in such situations. 

Matthew SchultzTechnologyFormationMagnifica Humanitas

The Kiln of Proceduralism: On the Failures of Magnifica Humanitas

Soon Leo will be dialoguing with a people formed by a machine intelligence that propagates counterfeit inhabitation, one that accustoms people to experience Christianity by asking a chatbot to teach them the Nicene Creed. Is he ready for that? Are we?

CultureFormationEddie LaRow

Even in the Agony of Despondency

Lincoln was a great man and leader not despite his frequent melancholy, but because he kept going even under the weight of melancholy.

TechnologyFormationHayden NesbitMagnifica Humanitas

When Christoff Meets Pope Leo

The experience of resonance will not be manufactured by tech overlords.

TechnologyFamilyFormationIsaac DeValois

How My Family Uses Yoto to Teach Our Kids the Faith

Christian families will be greatly helped by this little device for its simple and convenient opportunity to help conduct catechesis.